Designing the V&A

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

AvJulius Bryant

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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Beskrivning

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 Much of this visual material is previously unpublished and is outside the canon of Victorian art and design.The V&A’s first Director, Henry Cole, conceived the museum’s building as a showcase for leading Victorian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.This book represents a fascinating, untold chapter in the history of British 19th-century art, design, architecture and museums, and provides an essential key to understanding the evolution of the museum’s early collections and identity.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-03-30
Mått:228 x 270 x 22 mm
Vikt:1 156 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:V&A 19th-Century Series
Antal sidor:176
Förlag:Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
ISBN:9781848222335

Utforska kategorier

Arkitektur inom Kultur
Referensverk och tvärvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Konsthistoria inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

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).

Innehållsförteckning

Part I: Introduction: 1 Building the Museum; 2 The Museum as a Work of Art; 3 A Summary Timeline; Part II: Designs and Decoration: A Parkland Setting; The South Kensington Museum; The Refreshment Rooms; The Ceramic Stairs and Galleries; The Lecture Theatre; The Paintings Galleries and the North Staircase; The North Court; The South Courts; The 'Kensington Valhalla'; The Oriental Courts; The Prince Consort's Gallery; The National Competition Gallery; Frederic Leighton's Frescoes; The East Staircase; The National Art Library; The Cast Courts; The Grand Entrance and the Long Gallery; The Pantheon of British Art; The Henry Cole Wing; Exhibition Road; Endnotes; Index