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Word and Image: The Library at the Victoria and Albert Museum
Julius Bryant
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Description for Word and Image: The Library at the Victoria and Albert Museum
Hardcover. This unique history brings together more than 150 spectacular objects from the National Art Library's collection of literature, prints, drawings and photographs. Num Pages: 176 pages, 180. BIC Classification: AKH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 277 x 224 x 18. Weight in Grams: 964.
This unique history brings together more than 150 spectacular objects from the National Art Library's collection of literature, prints, drawings and photographs. Housed within the V&A, the library was, from the beginning, an integral part of the Museum, formed by, and for, artists and designers as an essential element of the educational and museological project of Prince Albert and Henry Cole after the Great Exhibition of 1851. Word & Image shows how the distinct character of the NAL was formed, and how its collections created a new kind of bibliographical resource. From a fifteenth-century book of hours to William Morris's ... Read more
This unique history brings together more than 150 spectacular objects from the National Art Library's collection of literature, prints, drawings and photographs. Housed within the V&A, the library was, from the beginning, an integral part of the Museum, formed by, and for, artists and designers as an essential element of the educational and museological project of Prince Albert and Henry Cole after the Great Exhibition of 1851. Word & Image shows how the distinct character of the NAL was formed, and how its collections created a new kind of bibliographical resource. From a fifteenth-century book of hours to William Morris's ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
V & A Publishing
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781851778089
SKU
V9781851778089
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-50
About Julius Bryant
Julius Bryant is Keeper of Word & Image at the V&A, responsible for the National Art Library, and for Prints, Drawings, Paintings and Photographs. Among the major exhibitions he has co-curated are James 'Athenian' Stuart, 1713 - 1788: The Rediscovery of Antiquity (V&A and Bard Graduate Center, 2007); Art and Design for All: The Victoria and Albert Museum (Bonn, 2011) ... Read more
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