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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Victoria and Albert Museum"”.
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Emilie Grigsby’s wardrobe at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London: The challenges and opportunities of personal collections of dress for a museum of art and design
… of wardrobe studies exploring clothing accrued and worn by an individual over a lifetime. Stemming from multiple disciplines including fashion studies, sociology, anthropology, psychology and life-writing, these studies have revealed that wardrobes offer a vital resource for fashion history. …
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How can material culture analysis of fashionable menswear augment biographical and museological interpretations? A critical analysis of three wardrobes of menswear at the Victoria and Albert Museum and Fashion Museum, Bath
… area of research, through which theorists and practitioners have become increasingly aware of the power of objects to hold narratives. But the analysis of the biography of the clothes worn by subjects is seldom described or displayed. I build on theory around the biography of objects as a …
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Producing and Collecting for Empire: African Textiles in the V&A 1852-2000
… is to examine the African textiles in the Victoria and Albert Museum and how they reflect the historical and cultural relationship between Britain and Africa. As recently as 2009 the V&A’s collecting policy stated ‘Objects are collected from all major artistic traditions … The Museum does …
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Investigation of the presentation of Ainu identity in British museums and exhibitions
… from what is now considered to be Japanese and Russian territory. This thesis explores how Ainu identity is presented in British museums and exhibitions, evaluating displays and their curation. Analysing these institutions through a decolonial lens, I consider: the extent to which Ainu …
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Photography, Knowledge and the South Kensington Museum
This thesis argues that the South Kensington Museum, through its governing body the Department of Science and Art and its neighbouring institutions in Albertopolis, formed a sophisticated photographic infrastructure. The photographic infrastructure extended beyond the official remit of the Museum …
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Armour and Lace: Women Photographers in Nineteenth-Century Institutions
… 150,000 photographs registered in the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in the nineteenth century, I have discovered that close to 8,000 were made by women, representing a significant contribution to the V&A’s nineteenth-century institutional photographic collection. This number includes …
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The Representation of Association Football in Fine Art in England From its Origins to the Present Day
… of football in English art from the late Victorian period up to 2010. In general terms, with minor but notable exceptions, the analysis will centre on the work of fine artists working in 2D, whose work has length and width much like a football pitch. The thesis will look at how artists …
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Residencies with Resonance: A case for pragmatism in design-led concept development
… the relevant philosophical foundations of design and pragmatism in order to co-design a new model of provision for design residencies in the museum. To achieve this, it considers the transformations in design that have been the focus of much academic debate in recent years. In an attempt to move …
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The Green Dining Room: The Experience of an Arts and Crafts Interior
… in 1865 for London’s South Kensington Museum (now the V&A), the Green Dining Room was conceived during an exciting period in Victorian Britain, when idealistic artists and architects elevated the status of the decorative arts in fine art circles, promoted the ideal of joy in labour, and …
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Weaving histories: cultural memory, similarity, and curatorial approach in the interpretation of Achaemenid and Safavid Persian carpets
I was born and raised in Iran, where my father; both a merchant and a passionate collector of Persian carpets; introduced me to the intricacies of this traditional art form. From an early age, he taught me the craft and symbolism of carpet weaving. I remember visiting a carpet-making factory with …