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Designing the V&A: The Museum as a Work of Art (1857-1909) 2017 (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,154
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Designing the V&A: The Museum as a Work of Art (1857-1909) 2017 (Hardcover): Julius Bryant

Designing the V&A: The Museum as a Work of Art (1857-1909) 2017 (Hardcover)

Julius Bryant

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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 Much of this visual material is previously unpublished and is outside the canon of Victorian art and design.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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Imprint: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: March 2017
Authors: Julius Bryant
Dimensions: 270 x 228 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 978-1-84822-233-5
Categories: Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Museums & museology
Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > Theory of art
Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1800 to 1900 > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial, etc > General
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LSN: 1-84822-233-5
Barcode: 9781848222335

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