Owen Jones and the V&A: Ornament for a Modern Age

Author:   Olivia Horsfall Turner
Publisher:   Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
ISBN:  

9781848226012


Pages:   160
Publication Date:   05 June 2023
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Olivia Horsfall Turner
Publisher:   Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Imprint:   Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 22.80cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 27.00cm
ISBN:  

9781848226012


ISBN 10:   1848226012
Pages:   160
Publication Date:   05 June 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

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.

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‘In Owen Jones and the V&A: Ornament for a modern age (Lund Humphries), Olivia Horsfall Turner deftly places Jones in the vanguard of the design revolution, charting his key role in the decoration of the Great Exhibition and the V&A’s “Oriental Court”, and highlighting his equally innovative Examples of Chinese Ornament (1867). Horsfall Turner is level-headed about Jones’s “Orientalism”, but concludes that he decisively put non-western design sources centre stage.’ – James Hall, *TLS Books of the Year *


‘In Owen Jones and the V&A: Ornament for a modern age (Lund Humphries), Olivia Horsfall Turner deftly places Jones in the vanguard of the design revolution, charting his key role in the decoration of the Great Exhibition and the V&A’s “Oriental Court”, and highlighting his equally innovative Examples of Chinese Ornament (1867). Horsfall Turner is level-headed about Jones’s “Orientalism”, but concludes that he decisively put non-western design sources centre stage.’ – James Hall, *TLS Books of the Year * 'Horsfall Turner’s book makes a fundamental contribution to the recognition of Owen Jones’s place in the history of Victorian art. It also has the strong merit of demonstrating that ornament is not just mere decoration but is always at the centre of much more complex sociopolitical and economic dynamics.' – Ariane Varela Braga, The Burlington Magazine


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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.

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