Casts reading list

Baker, Malcolm. 'A Glory to the Museum: the Casting of the Pórtico de la Gloria'. V&A Album I (1982): 101-8. National Art Library pressmark: REF 708.21 VIC

Baker, Malcolm, and Brenda Richardson, eds. Catalogue entries 24, 26-7. In A Grand Design: the Art of the Victoria and Albert Museum , 127-8, 130-2. London: V&A Publications, 1997. National Art Library pressmark: NC.99.2423

Bilbey, Diane. 'The Cast Courts'. In European Sculpture at the Victoria and Albert Museum , edited by Paul Williamson, 182-5. London: V&A Publications 1996. National Art Library pressmark: 47.Y.1016

Bilbey, Diane, and Ruth Cribb. 'Plaster models, plaster casts, electrotypes and fictile ivories'. In The Making of Sculpture , edited by Marjorie Trusted, 153-171. London: V&A Publications, 2007. National Art Library pressmark: 603.AH.0558

Bilbey, Diane, with Marjorie Trusted, eds. Catalogue entry 467. In British Sculpture 1470 to 2000: a Concise Catalogue of the Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum , 303. London: V&A Publications, 2002. National Art Library pressmark: 603.AC.1884

Haskell, Francis, and Nicholas Penny. Taste and the Antique: the Lure of Classical Sculpture, 1500-1900 . New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 1988. National Art Library pressmark: 37.Y.353

Physick, John. 'The Architectural Courts.' In The Victoria and Albert Museum: the History of its Building , 156-60. London: V&A, 1982. National Art Library pressmark: REF 708.21 PHY

Pollen, John Hungerford. A Description of the Architecture and Monumental Sculpture in the South-East Court of the South Kensington Museum . London: printed by George Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1874. National Art Library pressmark: VA.1874 Box.0001

Pollen, John Hungerford. A Description of the Trajan Column . London: printed by George Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1874. National Art Library pressmark: 37.C.30

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British Design 1948–2012: Innovation in the Modern Age

31 March–12 August 2012

Showcasing over 300 British design objects, this exhibition celebrates the best of British post-war art and design from the 1948 ‘Austerity Games' to the summer of 2012.

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Event - Subsidy, Patronage & Sponsorship : Theatre and Performance Culture in Uncertain Times

Thu 19 July 2012–Sat 21 July 2012

CONFERENCE: The V&A and the University of Reading are organising an international conference related to the major AHRC project, ‘Giving Voice to the Nation': the Arts Council of Great Britain and the development of theatre and Performance in Britain 1945-1995.

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