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Joseph Constantine Stadler, The Gallery at Strawberry Hill, no date, aquatint on paper, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

The Many Lives of Horace Walpole

Bernard Leach, Charger, Tree of Life, 1923–25, earthenware, brown slip, and a galena glaze, The John Driscoll Collection, New York, photograph by Joshua Nefsky

British Studio Pottery: Past, Present, and Future

Filming on the set of Ready Steady Go, February 1964, Television TV program, Trinity Mirror / Mirrorpix / Alamy Stock Photo

Jazz Painting? Modernist Hockney?

Henry Aston Barker and Frederick Birnie, after Robert Barker, one of six plates from his Panoramic View of London, 1792–1793, hand-colored aquatint, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

The Panorama as Global Landscape

Film still, Ein Lichtspiel: Schwarz Weiss Grau, directed by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (1930), © 2017 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / DACS, London

The Enlightened Screen: Atmospheric Media

Bridget Riley, Untitled [Rose], 1978, screen print, Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John Russell, © Bridget Riley 2017. All rights reserved, courtesy Karsten Schubert, London

The Great Lost Look ca. 1969: Beyond Cultural Studies

William Kentridge, More Sweetly Play the Dance, 2015, eight-channel video installation with four megaphones, 15 minutes, photograph © William Kentridge, courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, photograph by Cathy Carver

Strange Shadows: The Magical Sublime

Bruce McLean, 150ft Seaskape, Largiebeg, 1969, two photographs, black and white, on paper and typewritten caption on card, Tate; © Bruce McLean 2017. All rights reserved, courtesy of the artist; Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London; Photography: Tate, London 2017

Hippy Hippy Shake: Sculpture through the Counterculture

Lewis Morley, Pauline Boty (detail), 1963, gelatin silver print, Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Dr. J. Patrick and Patricia Kennedy, Lewis Morley / National Science & Media Museum / Science & Society Picture Librar

Painting Sensations: Pauline Boty/Bridget Riley