What Makes British Art ‘British’?

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What Makes British Art ‘British’?

In The Invention of British Art, Bendor Grosvenor explores how the ‘commissioning classes’ have long influenced the making of a national style  Art historian Bendor Grosvenor’s The Invention of British Art is a lively, engaging and erudite retelling of the history of British art shadowed by a problem it can never quite resolve: what is it about British art that can be said to be particularly ‘British’? As histories of art in Britain are being en…