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Julius Bryant

Designing the V&A

The Museum as a Work of Art (1857-1909)

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The building of the Victoria andAlbert Museum, begun in 1857, is the most elaborately designed and decoratedmuseum in Britain. This book is the first to consider the V&A as a work ofart in itself, presenting drawings, watercolours and historic photographsrelating to the museum's 19th-century exteriors and interiors. Much of this visualmaterial is previously unpublished and is outside the canon of Victorian artand design.The V&A's first Director, HenryCole, conceived the museum's building as a showcase for leading Victorianartists to design and decorate. This book reveals for the first time the waysin which Cole's expressed policy to '… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-84822-233-5
  • EAN: 9781848222335
  • Produktnummer: 22272847
  • Verlag: Durnell
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
  • Seitenangabe: 176 S.
  • Masse: H27.0 cm x B22.8 cm x D2.0 cm 774 g
  • Abbildungen: Includes 208 colour illustrations, farbige Illustrationen
  • Gewicht: 774

Über den Autor


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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