The Radical Print: Art and Politics in Late 18th Century Britain — Dr Esther Chadwick

"IFPDA 2025 BOOK AWARD | The Radical Print: Art and Politics in Late 18th Century Britain — Dr Esther Chadwick​​"
March 29, 2025

A groundbreaking account of printmaking in Britain that explores the medium’s intersection with radical politics, The Radical Print argues for printmaking in Britain as the most exciting, innovative, and critically engaged field of artistic production in the late 18th century, demonstrating how print responded to the acceleration of historical events, the polarisation of public discourse, and the sense of a world turned upside down in ways that traditional artistic media could not.

Dr Esther Chadwick is Lecturer in Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art. She was the co-curator of Figures of Empire: Slavery and Portraiture in Eighteenth Century Atlantic Britain (Yale Center for British Art, 2014), A Revolutionary Legacy: Haiti and Toussaint Louverture (British Museum, 2018) and Entangled Pasts, 1768-now: art, colonialism and change (Royal Academy, 2024). Before joining the Courtauld she was Curator in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum.

​This program was hosted by the IFPDA Print Fair 2025 on-site at Park Avenue Armory.

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