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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Lund Humphries Publishers, The Limited
ISBN-10
1848226187
ISBN-13
9781848226180
eBay Product ID (ePID)
10057268668
Product Key Features
Book Title
Enriching the V&A : a Collection of Collections (1862-1914)
Number of Pages
176 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2023
Topic
Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / Permanent Collections, Museum Administration & Museology, Museum Studies, General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Art, Business & Economics
Book Series
V&A 19th-Century Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
40.6 Oz
Item Length
10.6 in
Item Width
9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
708.2134
Table Of Content
Foreword, Tristram Hunt; Part I: A Museum for Collectors?; Part II: Polymaths of the Graphic Arts; Part III: Collecting Overseas; Part IV: Collecting for New Museums; Part V: Collectors at Home; Part VI: Into the New Century; Notes; Acknowledgements; Further Reading; Index
Synopsis
By 1862, just a decade after its launch as a study collection for art and design, the Victoria and Albert Museum had become a reference resource for collectors, scholars and art-market experts. Enriching the V&A , the final volume in a trilogy of books on the museum's 19th-century history, describes how the young museum's rapid growth in the following decades was driven more by collectors, agents and dealers, through loans, gifts and bequests, than by the combined expertise, acquisitions policies and buying power of its directors and curators. The V&A soon became a collection of collections, embodying a new age of collecting that benefitted from the break-up of historic institutions and ancestral collections across Europe, and imperial expeditions in Asia and Africa. The industrial revolution had created a new social class with the resources to buy from the expanding art market, especially in the decorative arts. Many were touched by a new moral imperative to collect for the home, however humble, and to share their specialist knowledge and enthusiasm by lending to the new public museums. Enriching the V&A explores the formative influence on the museum, and on pioneering fields of scholarship, of the V&A's leading Victorian and Edwardian benefactors. It also shares uncomfortable truths about the sources of some objects from the age of empires and shows how the meanings of things can change through the transformation of private property into public museum collections., By 1862, just a decade after its launch as a study collection for art and design, the Victoria and Albert Museum had become a reference resource for collectors, scholars and art-market experts. Enriching the V&A, the final volume in a trilogy of books on the museum's 19th-century history, describes how the young museum's rapid growth ......, By 1862, just a decade after its launch as a study collection for art and design, the Victoria and Albert Museum had become a reference resource for collectors, scholars and art-market experts. Enriching the V&A, the final volume in a trilogy of books on the museum's 19th-century history, describes how the young museum's rapid growth in the following decades was driven more by collectors, agents and dealers, through loans, gifts and bequests, than by the combined expertise, acquisitions policies and buying power of its directors and curators. The V&A soon became a collection of collections, embodying a new age of collecting that benefitted from the break-up of historic institutions and ancestral collections across Europe, and imperial expeditions in Asia and Africa. The industrial revolution had created a new social class with the resources to buy from the expanding art market, especially in the decorative arts. Many were touched by a new moral imperative to collect for the home, however humble, and to share their specialist knowledge and enthusiasm by lending to the new public museums. Enriching the V&A explores the formative influence on the museum, and on pioneering fields of scholarship, of the V&A's leading Victorian and Edwardian benefactors. It also shares uncomfortable truths about the sources of some objects from the age of empires and shows how the meanings of things can change through the transformation of private property into public museum collections.
LC Classification Number
N1150
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