ISBN: 9781851773084 - a grand design: art of the victoria and albert museum (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st. Dust Jacket: Yes. Unclipped. External Condition: Excellent. Clean. Internal Condition: Excellent. A small grubby mark to the front and rear endpapers, otherwise clean. Author/Editor: Baker, Malcolm; Richardson, Brenda. ISBN: 9781851773084. Publisher: V&A. Year: 1997. Edition: 1st. Binding: Hardcover. Illustrated: Yes, colour and B&W. Language: English. Page Count: 431. Keywords: art, V&A, museum, ceramics, textiles, furniture. The book for sale is the one in the photo. …

Zustand: Very Good. 431 pages. This guide to the V&A Museum in London brings together over 250 of the Museu m's greatest treasures and tells the story of how the collections have been buil t up over the 20th century. At the end of the 1990s, the V&A held more than 4 million objects spanning centuries of art in most media.…

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

1st edition, reprint. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 431 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm. Notes: 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. 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. Subjects: Victoria and Albert Museum; Exhibitions; Victoria and Albert Museum (London, England) Catalogues; Art England London; Art museums England; Decorative arts Great Britain History; Museums History; Cultural property; Design; Fine arts. 1 Kg.…