Designing the V&A
the museum as a work of art (1857-1909)
$110.35
- Hardcover
176 pages
- Release Date
14 March 2017
Summary
The building of the Victoria and Albert Museum, begun in 1857, is the most elaborately designed and decorated museum in Britain. This book is the first to consider the V&A as a work of art in itself, presenting drawings, watercolours and historic photographs relating to the museum’s 19th-century exteriors and interiors. Much of this visual material is previously unpublished and is outside the canon of Victorian art and design.
The V&A’s first Director, Henry Cole, conceived t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781848222335 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1848222335 |
| 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: | 14 March 2017 |
| Weight: | 1.16kg |
| Dimensions: | 270mm x 228mm |
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About The Author
Julius Bryant
Julius Bryant is Keeper of Word and Image at theVictoria and Albert Museum, with responsibility for Paintings, Prints, Drawingsand Photographs, the National Art Library and the Archive of Art and Design.From 2005 to 2017 he was also the V&A’s lead curator for exhibitions onJames ‘Athenian’ Stuart, on William Kent and on John Lockwood Kipling (all incollaboration with the Bard Graduate Center, New York City, as co-curator andsenior research fellow). He is author of Alec Cobbe: Designs forHistoric Interiors (V&A, 2014), editor of Art and Design forAll: The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A, 2011) and co-editor of Word& Image: Art, Books and Design from the National Art Library (V&A,2015).
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