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A grand design : the art of the Victoria and Albert Museum / Malcolm Baker, Brenda Richardson, general editors ; with research and essays by Anthony Burton [and others].

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Baltimore : V & A Publications ; Baltimore Museum of Art, 1997Description: 431 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 31 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1851772170
  • 9781851772179
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 708.221
LOC classification:
  • N1150 .A58 1997a
Contents:
Museums, collections, and their histories / Malcolm Baker -- The idealist enterprise and the applied arts / Michael Conforti -- The Victoria and Albert Museum : an illustrated chronology / Richard Dunn and Anthony Burton -- Industrial arts and the exhibition ideal / Peter Trippi -- Teaching by example : education and the formation of South Kensington's museums / Rafael Cardoso Denis -- An encyclopedia of treasures : the idea of the great collection / Timothy Stevens and Peter Trippi -- The empire of things : the engagement with the Orient / Partha Mitter and Craig Clunas -- National consciousness, national heritage, and the idea of "englishness" / Charles Saumarez Smith -- Collecting the twentieth century / Christopher Wilk.
Summary: Examines the history of the Victoria and Albert Museum, the formation of its collections and the way these have been constantly re-interpreted through its displays.
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Catalog of a traveling exhibition shown at the Baltimore Museum of Art, and other museums Oct. 1997-Jan. 2000.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-411) and index.

Museums, collections, and their histories / Malcolm Baker -- The idealist enterprise and the applied arts / Michael Conforti -- The Victoria and Albert Museum : an illustrated chronology / Richard Dunn and Anthony Burton -- Industrial arts and the exhibition ideal / Peter Trippi -- Teaching by example : education and the formation of South Kensington's museums / Rafael Cardoso Denis -- An encyclopedia of treasures : the idea of the great collection / Timothy Stevens and Peter Trippi -- The empire of things : the engagement with the Orient / Partha Mitter and Craig Clunas -- National consciousness, national heritage, and the idea of "englishness" / Charles Saumarez Smith -- Collecting the twentieth century / Christopher Wilk.

Examines the history of the Victoria and Albert Museum, the formation of its collections and the way these have been constantly re-interpreted through its displays.

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