TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baker,Malcolm
AU  - Richardson,Brenda
AU  - Burton,Anthony
ED  - Victoria and Albert Museum
TI  - A grand design: the art of the Victoria and Albert Museum 
SN  - 1851772170
AV  - N1150 .A58 1997a
U1  - 708.221 
PY  - 1997///
CY  - London, Baltimore
PB  - V & A Publications, Baltimore Museum of Art
KW  - Victoria and Albert Museum
KW  - Exhibitions
KW  - Art
KW  - England
KW  - London
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -