Description
| Product ID: | 9781848226012 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | V&A 19th-Century Series |
| Title: | Owen Jones and the V&A |
| Subtitle: | Ornament for a Modern Age |
| Authors: | Author: Olivia Horsfall Turner |
| Page Count: | 160 |
| Subjects: | History of art, History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900, Decorative arts, History of architecture, Museology and heritage studies, Decorative arts, History of architecture, Museology & heritage studies, c 1800 to c 1900 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Owen Jones (1809-1874), a prolific architect, designer, illustrator and printer, was recognised during his lifetime as one of the most influential contemporary figures in art and design theory. This insightful book, the latest in the V&A Nineteenth-Century Series, explores his relationship with the South Kensington Museum (later the Victoria and Albert Museum), from its inauguration in the 1850s through to his death in 1874. With particular focus on the creation of his celebrated volume The Grammar of Ornament (1856), his decorative scheme for the museum's so-called 'Oriental Court' and the preparation of his lesser-known publication Examples of Chinese Ornament (1867), it offers a fascinating exploration of the identity of the early museum and its imperial context. |
| Imprint Name: | Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-06-05 |
