Edited books & special issues /
(Forthcoming, 2026)
Pictorial Realism and Time: Early Modern to Now
Edited by Thomas Hughes and
Rachel Stratton
21: Inquiries into Art, History and the Visual
Essays
Forthcoming: Thomas Hughes, ‘Imaginative Realism and Time in Ruskin’s Turner’ in 21: Inquiries into Art, History and the Visual special issue Pictorial Realism and Time: Early Modern to Now (eds) Thomas Hughes and Rachel Stratton. Due 2026.
Thomas Hughes, ‘Vitality of Form in Ruskin and Pater on Michelangelo’, Oxford Art Journal special issue (eds Alex Potts and Thomas Hughes), vol. 48, no. 1 (March 2025), pp. 87–106. Link.
Thomas Hughes, ‘The Parthenon of Gothic: John Ruskin and Walter Pater at Amiens Cathedral’ in En couple. Historiennes et historiens de l’art au travail (eds) Victor Claass, Pascale Cugy, Charlotte Foucher Zarmanian, François-René Martin (Paris: Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2024), pp. 203–220.
Thomas Hughes, ‘Wondrous Transformation in Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s La Ghirlandata’, in The Victorian Idyll in Art and Literature: Subject, Ecology, Form (eds) Thomas Hughes and Emma Merkling (New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2023), pp. 167–183.
Thomas Hughes, ‘The Human Landscape: John Ruskin, Drawing and Colour’, in British Art and the Environment: Changes, Challenges and Responses (eds) Charlotte Gould and Sophie Mesplède (New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2022), pp. 182–197.
Thomas Hughes, ‘The Balcony: Queer Temporality in The Stones of Venice and Proust’, in Ruskin’s Ecologies: Figures of Relation from Modern Painters to The Storm-Cloud (eds) Kelly Freeman and Thomas Hughes (London: Courtauld Books Online, 2021). Link.
Thomas Hughes, ‘Subjectivity, Historical Imagination and the Language of Art History’, Journal of Art Historiography, no. 23, December 2020. Link.
Thomas Hughes, ‘Review: Whistler’s Woman in White, The Royal Academy 26 February–22 May 2022’, 19 Live, July 2022. Link.