Author: Victoria and Albert MuseumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
A guide to the Food Collection in the South Kensington Museum. By Edwin Lankester
Author: Victoria and Albert MuseumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Catalogue of the art library, South Kensington museum
Author: sir John Charles RobinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
A Guide to the Collections of the South Kensington Museum
Author: South Kensington MuseumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
A Guide to the Collections of the South Kensington Museum
Author: South Kensington MuseumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
A Guide to the Collections of the South Kensington Museum
Author: Catalogue of the Lace in the South Kensington Museum
Author: Bury PalliserPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382130637
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
The Invention of the American Art Museum
Author: Kathleen CurranPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606064789
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
American art museums share a mission and format that differ from those of their European counterparts, which often have origins in aristocratic collections. This groundbreaking work recounts the fascinating story of the invention of the modern American art museum, starting with its roots in the 1870s in the craft museum type, which was based on London’s South Kensington (now the Victoria and Albert) Museum. At the turn of the twentieth century, American planners grew enthusiastic about a new type of museum and presentation that was developed in Northern Europe, particularly in Germany, Switzerland, and Scandinavia. Called Kulturgeschichte (cultural history) museums, they were evocative displays of regional history. American trustees, museum directors, and curators found that the Kulturgeschichte approach offered a variety of transformational options in planning museums, classifying and displaying objects, and broadening collecting categories, including American art and the decorative arts. Leading institutions, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, adopted and developed crucial aspects of the Kulturgeschichte model. By the 1930s, such museum plans and exhibition techniques had become standard practice at museums across the country.
Domenico Brucciani and the Formatori of 19th-Century Britain
Author: Rebecca WadePublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501332201
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Born near the Tuscan province of Lucca in 1815, Domenico Brucciani became the most important and prolific maker of plaster casts in nineteenth-century Britain. This first substantive study shows how he and his business used public exhibitions, emerging museum culture and the nationalisation of art education to monopolise the market for reproductions of classical and contemporary sculpture. Based in Covent Garden in London, Brucciani built a network of fellow Italian émigré formatori and collaborated with other makers of facsimiles-including Elkington the electrotype manufacturers, Copeland the makers of Parian ware and Benjamin Cheverton with his sculpture reducing machine-to bring sculpture into the spaces of learning and leisure for as broad a public as possible. Brucciani's plaster casts survive in collections from North America to New Zealand, but the extraordinary breadth of his practice-making death masks of the famous and infamous, producing pioneering casts of anatomical, botanical and fossil specimens and decorating dance halls and theatres across Britain-is revealed here for the first time. By making unprecedented use of the nineteenth-century periodical press and dispersed archival sources, Domenico Brucciani and the Formatori of Nineteenth-Century Britain establishes the significance of Brucciani's sculptural practice to the visual and material cultures of Victorian Britain and beyond.
First Proofs of the Universal Catalogue of Books on Art
Author: National Art Library (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1142
Book Description
Troy on Display
Author: Abigail BakerPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350114294
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
This book explores what visitors saw at the Trojan exhibition and why its contents, including treasure, plain pottery and human remains captured imaginations and divided opinions. When Schliemann's Trojan collection was first exhibited in 1877, no-one had seen anything like it. Schliemann claimed these objects had been owned by participants in the Trojan War and that they were tangible evidence that Homer's epics were true. Yet, these objects did not reflect the heroic past imagined by Victorians, and a fierce controversy broke out about the collection's value and significance. Schliemann invited Londoners to see the very unclassical objects on display as the roots of classical culture. Artists, poets, historians, race theorists, bankers and humourists took up this challenge, but their conclusions were not always to Schliemann's liking. Troy's appeal lay in its materiality: visitors could apply analytical techniques (from aesthetic appreciation to skull-measuring) to the collection and draw their own conclusions. This book argues for a deep examination of museum exhibitions as a constructed spatial experience, which can transform how the past is seen. This new angle on a famous archaeological discovery shows the museum as a site of controversy, where hard evidence and wild imagination came together to form a lasting image of Troy.