Creating the V&A
victoria and albert's museum (1851–1861)
$100.91
- Hardcover
176 pages
- Release Date
25 March 2019
Summary
Creating the V&A tells the definitive story of the formative years of London’s world-renowned Victoria and Albert Museum and the gathering of its early collections in the decade between the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the death of Prince Albert in 1861.
The story of the V&A’s genesis is often centred on the first director and first curator (Henry Cole and J. C. Robinson), and their competing agendas for design reform and connoisseurship. And yet there is an untold story of h…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781848223493 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1848223498 |
| Series: | V&A 19th-Century Series |
| Author: | Julius Bryant |
| Publisher: | Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 25 March 2019 |
| Weight: | 1.15kg |
| Dimensions: | 270mm x 228mm |
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About The Author
Julius Bryant
Julius Bryant is Keeper of Word and Image at the Victoriaand Albert Museum and author of Designingthe V&A: The Museum as a Work of Art (1857–1909) (Lund Humphries, 2017).
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