Art without Frontiers: The History of the British Council and the Visual Arts

by Annebella Pollen (contributor)

How art can enhance cultural relations: the work of the British Council, from 1935 to now

For more than eight decades, the British Council has sent British art abroad to foster dialogue with over 1,000 countries, amassing a collection comprising over 8,500 pieces. This book follows the work of the Council since 1935.

Genres: Art

304 pages, Hardcover

First published May 19, 2020

About the author

Annebella Pollen is Principal Lecturer and Academic Programme Leader in the History of Art and Design at the University of Brighton. She is widely published in the field of visual and material culture. She is the author of The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift: Intellectual Barbarians (2015), Mass Photography: Collective Histories of Everyday Life (I.B.Tauris, 2016) and co-editor of Dress History: New Directions in Theory and Practice (2015).