Main entry:

Victoria and Albert Museum.

Title & Author:

Vision & accident : the story of the Victoria and Albert Museum / Anthony Burton.

Publication:

London : V & A Publications, 1999.

Description:

264 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Art and industry in the 1830s and '40s -- 2. The Museum at Marlborough House -- 3. The South Kensington idea -- 4. The Heroic Age at South Kensington -- 5. The supremacy of Henry Cole -- 6. South Kensington under threat -- 7. South Kensington conquers the world -- 8. Declining skills and diverging purposes -- 9. The purgation of the Department of Science and Art -- 10. Rearrangement -- 11. Reconsideration and further rearrangement -- 12. A prosperous interlude -- 13. Cultural politics in the late twentieth century -- 14. And now ...

Summary:

"This history focuses on the people, the policies and the politics of one of the world's greatest museums. A place of passion, turbulence and novelty, the V & A was founded in early Victorian times as a campaigning institution, and hot debate has been raging ever since. This is not a book about the majestic growth of the superb collections, or about the remarkable rise of the ornate buildings - it is about what people thought, what they did, and what happened to them. Alongside orthodox museum activities, readers will discover an 'official murder', suicide, embezzlement and theft."--Jacket.

ISBN:

1851772928
9781851772926

Subject:

Victoria and Albert Museum History.
Victoria and Albert Museum
Victoria and Albert museum (Londres) Histoire.
Museums England London History.
Musées Angleterre Londres Histoire.
Art Musées Angleterre (GB) Londres (GB)

Form/genre:

History
histories (visual works)

Added entries:

Burton, Anthony, 1942-

Vision and accident

Holdings:

Location: Library main 207764
Call No.: NA44.S473.25 V5 1999
Status: Available