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Art Nouveau, 1890-1914
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Paul Greenhalgh (Editor)
Looking at Art Nouveau from an international perspective, this text examines its origins and meaning within an art-historical, literary and social context. It covers all the major designers of the period and the environment in which they worked, describing the variation in forms and ideas expressed in key schools of thought. An important section ...
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Kaffe Fassetts Museum Quilts
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Kaffe Fassett, Liza Prior Lucy
Kaffe Fassett's Museum Quilts showcases 20 new patchwork designs, all inspired by treasures from the world-famous Victoria & Albert Museum. Textile artist Kaffe Fassett breathes new life into old masterpieces by updating the colors and employing contemporary techniques. 200 illustrations & photos.
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Design and the Decorative Arts: Britain 1500-1900
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Mr. Michael Snodin, John Styles, Christopher Wilk (Foreword by)
Unmatched in its breadth of coverage, with over 1,000 stunning illustrations, this important new book tells the story of British design and decorative arts over four centuries. From the time of Henry VII through the reign of Queen Victoria, British designers soared in influence, creating a rich diversity of furniture, textiles, silver, metalwork, ...
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Hiroshige Fan Prints
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Rupert Faulkner
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858), a leading artist of the popular ukiyo-e school, created many of the most familiar images of pre-modern Japan. Considerably more rare are his designs for fan prints or uchiwa-e, and the remarkable group in the V&A, published here in their entirety for the first time,is the largest known holding of its kind in the ...
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A Grand Design: The Art of the Victoria and Albert Museum
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Victoria & Albert Museum
Here are over 250 of the museum's greatest treasures, presented in 366 lavish illustrations.
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Western furniture : 1350 to the present day
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Christopher Wilk, Victoria and Albert Museum
This wide-ranging survey offers a history of Western furniture which covers a dazzling array of styles, historical periods and countries. It looks at most of the main techniques and materials of furniture-making including carving and glass furniture.
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Paul and Thomas Sandby
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Luke Herrmann
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Arts of India 1550-1900
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Guy John, Deborah Swallow (Editor), John Guy (Editor)
A study of the arts of Mughal, Rajput and British India in the social and cultural context of their time. The text also offers information on over 200 of the finest treasures from the Victoria and Albert Museum's Indian collection. The book begins with a survey of the visual arts in pre-Mughal Rajasthan, the Deccan and the Punjab. The European ...
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Chinese export watercolours
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Craig Clunas
Chinese export watercolours were produced in the port cities of China for sale to Western customers in the late-18th and 19th centuries. Chapters look at paintings by subject, figure drawings, the crafts of tea growing and porcelain-making, topographical views, and bird and flower painting.
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Palace and Mosque: Islamic Art from the Middle East
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Tim Stanley
The arts of Islam, a great and ancient culture, are presented here in all their astonishing richness and diversity. From the Middle East came the earliest astrological clocks, the finest ceramics and lusterware, the development of calligraphy and Arabic scripts, and the intricate craft of carpet-weaving, among many other profoundly significant ...
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Ottoman Embroidery
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Marianne Ellis, Jennifer Mary Wearden
This book is a celebration of the extensive collection of Ottoman embroidery at the V and A which ranges from the middle of the 16th century to 1900. In addition to illustrating over 100 major pieces, an introductory text puts the collection in context, explaining who the Ottomans were and their impact on Europe. The embroideries themselves ...
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Chinese Furniture
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Craig Clunas
Illustrating the superb collection of Chinese furniture in the Victoria & Albert Museum, this volume is a detailed investigative study which combines material, textural and pictorial evidence to present a balanced view of the furniture and the society that produced it. It is an invaluable work of reference both for art historians and for ...
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Photography, an Independent Art: Photographs from the Victoria and Albert Museum 1839-1996
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Mark Haworth-Booth
The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) has one of the finest and oldest collections of photography in the world. In this fascinating book, Mark Haworth-Booth, Curator of Photographs at the V&A, offers the first comprehensive introduction to this extensive and impressive collection. In the process, he provides the reader with a general history of ...
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Lace: From the Victoria and Albert Museum
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Clare Browne, Christine Smith (Photographer)
"Lace focuses on the world-renowned collection of exquisite hand-made lace at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. From the delicate geometric perfection favored by Elizabethan courtiers to the bold ?oral exuberance of the Victorian age, this comprehensive book covers the art of lacemaking as it has been practiced for more than 300 years. The ...
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Things: A Spectrum of Photography 1850-2001
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Mark Haworth-Booth (Editor), Marina Warner (Introduction by)
Photography was described by its British inventor, W.H.F. Talbot, as 'the Pencil of Nature'. The medium used the laws of chemistry and physics to create superbly detailed descriptions of the material world that far surpassed all the earlier graphic media. Objects were photography's earliest subject. Things, published in association with the ...
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Pewter: At the Victoria & Albert Museum
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Anthony North, Andrew Spira
This comprehensive study, based on the extensive collection at the V&A, covers pewterware from a large number of countries, including Britain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain, Scandinavia, China and the USA. The collection is especially rich in continental pieces, and the book features an important series of German guild cups as ...
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Catalogue of Romanesque sculpture
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Victoria and Albert Museum, Paul Williamson
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Bookbindings
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The Victoria and Albert Museum
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The Victoria and Albert Museum: A Bibliography and Exhibition Chronology, 1852-1996
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Elizabeth James (Editor)
A comprehensive bibliography and exhibition chronology of the world's greatest museum of the decorative arts and design. The National Art Library, which is part of the Victoria & Albert Museum, has prepared this detailed catalogue of 2,500 publications and 1,500 exhibitions. Provides a fascinating reference source for the historical development of ...
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Bonington, Francia & Wyld
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Ms. Marcia Pointon
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Art of the Japanese Folding Screen
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Oliver Impey
The art of the Japanese folding screen illustrated from 23 superb examples in the collections of the Ashmolean and the V&A.
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Four Hundred Years of Fashion
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Madeleine Ginsburg, Natalie Rothstein (Photographer), Victoria & Albert Museum
The story of men's and women's fashionable dress through the ages, right up to the 1990's. It has a wide general audience as well as appealing to students and serious scholars.
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A grand design : the art of the Victoria and Albert Museum
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Malcolm Baker, Brenda Richardson, Baltimore Museum of Art
This guide to the V&A Museum in London brings together over 250 of the Museum's greatest treasures and tells the story of how the collections have been built 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.
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Masterpieces of World Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum
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Reino Liefkes (Editor), Hilary Young (Editor), Mike Kitcatt (Photographer)
The ceramics collections at the V&A among its greatest glories. They are unrivalled in their range, diversity and global reach. Featuring 120 masterpieces, this beautiful book traces developments in world ceramics from ancient times to the present. Conceived as a visual timeline, it draws together potting traditions from across the globe, showing ...
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