We are thrilled to announce that Prof Annebella Pollen’s latest book, Art without Frontiers, has been longlisted for the 2024 Berger Prize, the UK’s leading book prize for art history. The announcement was made at the Walpole Society Summer Party on the 28th of June 2024, at the London Library. 

The Berger Prize was established in 2001 by the Berger Collection Educational Trust (BCET) and Robin Simon, founder and editor of the British Art Journal. The Prize celebrates brilliant writing and scholarship about the arts and architecture from the UK. From 2024 onwards, the Walpole Society, which promotes the study of Britain’s art history, will deliver the Berger Prize. It will work alongside the BCET and Denver Art Museum, home of the Berger Collection of British art.

Art without Frontiers is one of the 19 books on the longlist and in very eminent company. The full list and the announcement can be viewed here.

What’s next? A shortlist of six titles will be announced in the autumn, and the final winner, who receives a prize of £5000, will be announced in November 2024.

Prof Dr Annebella Pollen is Professor of Visual and Material Culture at the University of Brighton, where she researches undervalued archives and untold stories in art and design history. Her previous books include Mass Photography: Collective Histories of Everyday Life (2015), The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift: Intellectual Barbarians (2015), Nudism in a Cold Climate: The Visual Culture of Naturists in Mid-20th-Century Britain (2021), and More Than a Snapshot: A Visual History of Photo Wallets (2023).