<div><div>This pioneering study argues that the concept of 'empire' belongs at the centre, rather than in the margins, of British art history. Recent scholarship in history, anthropology, literature and post-colonial studies has superseded traditional definitions of empire as a monolithic political and economic project.  Emerging across the humanities is the idea of empire as a complex and contested process, mediated materially and imaginatively by multifarious forms of culture.  The twenty essays in <i>Art and the British Empire</i> offer compelling methodological solutions to this ambiguity, while engaging in subtle visual analysis of a previously neglected body of work.  </div></div>