TU professors win book prize
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Two University of Tulsa professors have won the Historians of British Art (HBA) Book Prize for 2007.
Professors Hermione de Almeida and George Gilpin won for their book “Indian Renaissance: British Romantic Art and the Prospect of India.”
“The news is especially pleasing to us because our book was a decade or more in the making with the sorts of delays in research access and production that few would have expected to encounter with a single project. It remained nevertheless a labor of love,” said Gilpin, professor of English and McFarlin Library Scholar-in-Residence at TU.
“We hoped all along that we were setting out the parameters of a scholarly field that would inspire and encourage future scholars from a variety of disciplines,” said de Almeida, Pauline Walter Chair of English and Comparative Literature.
“Indian Renaissance: British Romantic Art and the Prospect of India” is the first comprehensive examination of British artists, explorers and travelers whose first-hand impressions and prospects of India from 1780 to 1836 became a stimulus for the Romantic Movement in England and Europe; the book includes 60 color and 180 black and white illustrations, according to the TU website.
The book received a publication grant from the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and support from the Yale Center for British Art. It was published last year in London by Ashgate publishing.
The HBA Book Prize was announced by the Association for Textual Scholarship in Art History at the annual meeting of the College Art Association Feb. 21–23 in Dallas.
“We hope that this prize will foster more book projects by other scholars that go beyond prevailing boundaries and inspire interdisciplinary and intercultural speculation,” said de Almeida.
For information on “Indian Renaissance: British Romantic Art and the Prospect of India,” visit www.ashgate.com.
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