DownloadThe Portobello Bookshop Gift Guide 2024

Word & Image

Art, Books and Design: from the National Art Library

Elizabeth James editor Rowan Watson editor Julius Bryant editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:V & A Publishing

Published:3rd Nov '14

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

Word & Image cover

This unique history brings together more than 150 spectacular objects from the National Art Library's collection of literature, prints, drawings and photographs. Housed within the V&A, the library was, from the beginning, an integral part of the Museum, formed by, and for, artists and designers as an essential element of the educational and museological project of Prince Albert and Henry Cole after the Great Exhibition of 1851. Word & Image shows how the distinct character of the NAL was formed, and how its collections created a new kind of bibliographical resource. From a fifteenth-century book of hours to William Morris's specimen pages for Jean Froissart's The Chronicles of Fraunce, Inglande, and Other Places Adjoynynge; from George Cruikshank's studies of Fagin for Oliver Twist to an Yves Saint Laurent design for the House of Dior; and from Bill Brandt's photographs to the Book of Nails by Floating Concrete Octopus, Word & Image explores some of the finest examples of 'book art' in existence.

ISBN: 9781851778089

Dimensions: 279mm x 229mm x 19mm

Weight: 962g

176 pages