Owen Jones and the V&A

Ornament for a Modern Age

Olivia Horsfall Turner (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

160 Seiten

2023
Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84822-601-2 (ISBN)

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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.

Olivia Horsfall Turner is Senior Curator of Architecture and Design at the Victoria and Albert Museum, where she looks after the collection of design drawings which document the creative process in art, architecture and design from the fourteenth century to the present day. She also writes, lectures and broadcasts about architecture, history and ideas.

Director’s Foreword; Series Editor’s Foreword; Introduction: From the Great Exhibition to the South Kensington Museum; Chapter 1 - ‘An ever-gushing fountain’: The Grammar of Ornament; Chapter 2 - Applied Principles: The ‘Oriental Court’; Chapter 3 - ‘Suggestive Character’: Examples of Chinese Ornament; Conclusion - ‘The Lawgiver of Ornamental Art’; Notes; Further Reading; Acknowledgements; Index.

Erscheinungsdatum	16.05.2023
Reihe/Serie	V&A 19th-Century Series
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations; 150 Illustrations, color
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	228 x 270 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	1-84822-601-2 / 1848226012
ISBN-13	978-1-84822-601-2 / 9781848226012
Zustand	Neuware