'Jazz', Henri Matisse, about 1947, binding by Paul Bonet, 1952. Museum no. L.338-1948
COLLECTIONS
Prints & Books
Prints & Books at the Victoria and Albert
Museum combine magnificent collections
of fine art prints, printmaking techniques and
commercial graphics with one of the world's
great resources for the art, craft and design
of the book.
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Computer Art at the Victoria and Albert Museum
The V&A has been collecting computer-generated art and design since the 1960s. More recently, the Museum acquired two significant collections of computer-generated art and design, and together these form the basis of the UK's emerging national collection of Computer Art.
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Designing Democracy: Posters and the Political Transformation of Europe 1989-1991
Between 1989 and 1991 the cold-war status quo was radically brought to an end by a series of revolutions and political transformations that swept across Central and Eastern Europe. During these momentous events, designers produced dozens of posters to record injustice and 'blank spots' in official history, as well as to encourage people to join in the task of creating democracy.
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Aesop's Fables
Aesop's fables have been a perpetual resource for moralists and story-tellers and popular subjects for illustration aimed at both children and adults. Aesop is really a compiler of the fables, which may originally have been passed down through oral tradition.
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Artists' Books
These pages provide information on the collection of artists' books held in the National Art Library and access to a Visual Database of a selection of artists' books in the collection.