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Designing the V&A: The Museum as a Work of Art (1857-1909)

By (author) Julius Bryant

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The building of the Victoria and Albert Museum, begun in 1857, is the most elaborately designed and decorated museum in Britain. This book is the first to consider the V&A as a work of art in itself, presenting drawings, watercolours and historic photographs relating to the museumâ€™s 19th-century exteriors and interiors. Much of this visual material is previously unpublished and is outside the canon of Victorian art and design. The V&Aâ€™s first Director, Henry Cole, conceived the museumâ€™s building as a showcase for leading Victorian artists to design and decorate. This book reveals for the first time the ways in which Coleâ€™s expressed policy to â€˜assemble a splendid collection of objects representing the application of Fine Arts to manufactureâ€™ was applied to the fabric of the building, as he engaged leading painters such as Frederic Leighton, G.F. Watts and Edward Burne-Jones, as well as specialists in decoration such as Owen Jones and Morris and Company, to decorate and design for a building raised by engineers using innovatory materials and techniques. This book represents a fascinating, untold chapter in the history of British 19th-century art, design, architecture and museums, and provides an essential key to understanding the evolution of the museumâ€™s early collections and identity.

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