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Designing the V&A: The Museum as a Work of Art (1857-1909) 2017 (Hardcover)
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Designing the V&A: The Museum as a Work of Art (1857-1909) 2017 (Hardcover)
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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 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visual material is previously unpublished and is outside the canon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 the Museum's building as a showcase for leading
Victorian artists to design and decorate. This book reveals for the
first time the ways in which Cole's expressed policy to 'assemble a
splendid collection of objects representing the application of Fine
Arts to manufacture' was applied to the fabric of the building, as
he engaged leading painters such as Frederic Leighton , G.F. Watts
and Edward Burne-Jones, as well as specialists in decoration such
as Owen Jones and Morris and Company, to decorate and design for a
building raised by engineers using innovatory materials and
techniques.It represents a fascinating, untold chapter in the
history of British 19th-century art, design, architecture and
museums, and an essential backdrop to understanding the evolution
of the Museum's early collections and identity.
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