Bibliograph

A grand design, the art of the Victoria and Albert Museum, Malcolm Baker and Brenda Richardson, general editors ; with research and essays by Anthony Burton ... [and others]

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A grand design, the art of the Victoria and Albert Museum, Malcolm Baker and Brenda Richardson, general editors ; with research and essays by Anthony Burton ... [and others]

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 401-411) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A grand design

Nature of contents

bibliographycatalogs

Oclc number

36301471

Responsibility statement

Malcolm Baker and Brenda Richardson, general editors ; with research and essays by Anthony Burton ... [and others]

Sub title

the art of the Victoria and Albert Museum

Table Of 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

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