Art and Design in Europe and America 1800 1900 at the Victoria and Albert Museum

1989 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 315-315
Author(s):  
W. KAPLAN
Keyword(s):  
Art And Design ◽  
Victoria And Albert Museum

Design for learning: developing the Sackler Centre for arts education at the V&A

2011 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-38
Author(s):  
Caroline Lang
Keyword(s):  
Arts Education ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Creative Design ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Learning Spaces ◽  
Art And Design ◽  
The People ◽  
Design For Learning ◽  
Victoria And Albert Museum

London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, the UK’s national museum of art and design, recently created a new centre for public learning through creative design. The development process was key to the project, which has resulted in one of the most innovative and attractive learning spaces in any museum today. Research, consultation and collaboration, involving the people who are going to use the building and the architects/designers from the outset, has been an approach that has worked very successfully.

From analogue to digital: preserving early computer-generated art in the V&A’s collections

2010 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 10-16
Author(s):  
Douglas Dodds
Keyword(s):  
Computer Art ◽  
Art Collections ◽  
Art And Design ◽  
Early Computer ◽  
Digital Material ◽  
History Of ◽  
Analogue To Digital ◽  
Victoria And Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert Museum holds the UK’s emerging national collection of early computer-generated art and design. Many of the earliest works only survive on paper, but the V&A also holds some born-digital material. The Museum is currently involved in a project to digitise the computer art collections and to make the information available online. Artworks, books and ephemera from the Patric Prince Collection and the archives of the Computer Arts Society are included in a V&A display on the history of computer-generated art, entitled Digital pioneers. In addition, the project is contributing to the development of the Museum’s procedures for dealing with time-based media.

Artists’ books in UK & Eire libraries

1993 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Ford
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Collection Management ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
Art And Design ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Victoria And Albert Museum ◽  
Selection Of

An overview of the author’s research into the collection management of artists’ books in UK and Eire libraries, dealing with their selection, acquisition, processing, cataloguing, storage, conservation, and exploitation. Much of the information derives from a questionnaire distributed to 127 art and design libraries in the UK and Eire during 1992. Various policies are compared and the case of the National Art Library, at the Victoria and Albert Museum, is examined in detail. Artists’ books are seen to illuminate fundamental issues concerning both contemporary art and contemporary librarianship. Future prospects are discussed and recommendations for better use, management, promotion and understanding of the material are offered. A selection of 25 definitions of artists’ books is appended.

Integrating access to distributed images: the Electronic Library Image Service for Europe (ELISE) project

1999 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-42
Author(s):  
Douglas Dodds
Keyword(s):  
European Community ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Electronic Library ◽  
Art And Design ◽  
Victoria And Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert Museum in London is a partner in the Electronic Library Image Service for Europe (ELISE) project, which is part-funded by the European Community. ELISE I began in 1993 and was completed in 1995. The V&A’s National Art Library is particularly involved in the second phase of the project, ELISE II, which began in 1996 and is due to finish in 1999. This paper explains the background to ELISE and considers the implications for the V&A and the wider art and design community.

scholarly journals L’impossible « chambre des horreurs » du Museum of Ornamental Art : une archéologie du design criminel

2014 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-51
Author(s):  
Marie-Ève Marchand
Keyword(s):  
Design Education ◽  
Art And Design ◽  
Good Design ◽  
The Public ◽  
British Art ◽  
Design Theories ◽  
Ornamental Art ◽  
The One ◽  
Victoria And Albert Museum ◽  
Do So

In 1852, the Museum of Ornamental Art, today the Victoria and Albert Museum, opened its doors to the public. Taking part in a general reform of the British art and design education system, the museum sought to instill what were considered good design principles. To do so, a museographic strategy that proved to be as popular as it was controversial was chosen: the exhibition gallery entitled “Decorations on False Principles,” which immediately became known as the “Chamber of Horrors.” This gallery, a dogmatic expression of the functionalist conception of ornament advocated by the museum, referred through its nickname to another then famous Chamber of Horrors, the one in Mme Tussaud’s wax museum. In this paper, I will first argue that the Museum of Ornamental Art’s Chamber of Horrors is an early example of the association of ornament with crime that reappears in later design theories. Second, by examining the means taken to transmit the idea of the criminalization of ornaments designed after “bad principles,” I demonstrate why the concept of the Chamber of Horrors is in itself doomed to failure. I thus analyze this uncommon exhibition as a manifestation of the museum’s aesthetic philosophy and mechanisms at a time when the institution’s modalities were still in the process of elaboration.

Archival resources in the Victoria and Albert Museum

1989 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 16-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. F. van der Wateren
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Graphic Design ◽  
Art And Design ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Record ◽  
Victoria And Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert Museum, itself an archive of material culture, houses several collections of archival records. The Museum’s Registered Papers are divided between the Museum itself, which holds those papers relating to objects in the Museum, and the Public Record Office, where papers relating to Museum buildings and administration can be found; all papers produced since 1984 are to be housed together in a newly established V & A Archive. The quality of the archive of Registered Papers is uneven due to the lack of a controlling and unifying policy; this, and questions of conservation and administration, are being addressed as part of the current restructuring of the Museum. For the same reason the archives of the different Departments, though important, vary considerably not only in content but also in their organisation. The National Art Library, part of the V & A, includes archival collections of ephemera, comprising examples of printing and graphic design, and of manuscripts, including artists’ papers; it also includes the Archive of Art and Design, founded in 1978 to avoid the splitting up of significant archives between the Museum’s Departments.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document