Creating the V&a - Victoria and Albert''s Museum (18511861)

Informationen zum Autor Julius Bryant is Keeper of Word and Image at the Victoria and Albert Museum and author of Designing the V&A: The Museum as a Work of Art (1857-1909) (Lund Humphries, 2017). Klappentext This book tells the story of the formative years of London's world-renowned Victoria and Albert Museum and the gathering of its early collections in the decade between the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the death of Prince Albert in 1861. Zusammenfassung This book tells the storyof the formative years of London’s world-renowned Victoria and Albert Museumand the gathering of its early collections in the decade between the GreatExhibition of 1851 and the death of Prince Albert in 1861. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword; PART I: A Teaching Collection, 1837–51; Introduction: Aims and Claims; Somerset House: The School of Design Collection; The Crystal Palace: Shopping at the Great Exhibition in 1851; PART II: International Collections, 1852–7; Marlborough House: A ‘Museum of Ornamental Manufactures’; Royal Collectors, Lenders, Donors, and the Planning of ‘Albertopolis’; Hunting for ‘Art Treasures’; The Gherardini Collection of Italian Renaissance Sculpture; The Soulages Collection; The Bernal and the Gigli–Campana Collections; Architectural Sculpture; Furniture and Paintings; Shopping in Paris: the Soltykoff Collection; Collecting the Contemporary; A Royal Opening, 20 June 1857; PART III: Displays and Debates, 1857–61; A Visit to the ‘Omnium-Gatherum’; Exhibiting Photography; The South Kensington Museum on Trial; ‘The Royal Albert Museum’; Appendices; Select Bibliography; Notes; Acknowledgements; Index

Product details

• Authors: Julius Bryant, Mr Julius Bryant
• Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9781848223493
• ISBN: 978-1-84822-349-3
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: V&A 19th-Century Series; V&a 19th-Century
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; London, Greater London, Central London, Museum, historic sites, gallery & art guides, ART / Museum Studies, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Exhibition catalogues & specific collections, Antiques & collectables, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, Exhibition catalogues and specific collections, Travel guides: museums, historic sites, galleries etc, Antiques, vintage and collectables