Japanese netsuke reading list
Arakawa, Hirokazu, The Go Collection of Netsuke. Kodansha, Tokyo, New York and San Fransisco, 1983. ISBN. 0870115669
Barker, Richard & Smith, Lawrence Netsuke: The Miniature Sculpture of Japan. British Museum, London, 1976
Bushell, Raymond, The Netsuke Handbook of Ueda Reikichi. Tuttle, Rutland and Tokyo, 1961
Bushell, Raymond, Netsuke Familiar and Unfamiliar. New York and Tokyo, 1975. ISBN. 0834801159
Bushell, Raymond, The Art of Netsuke Carving by Masatoshi as told to Raymond Bushell. Kodansha, Tokyo, New York, and San Francisco, 1981. ISBN. 0834802651
Coullery, Marie-Therese & Newstead, Martin, The Baur Collection, Geneva. Netsuke (Selected Pieces) Collections Baur, Geneva, 1977. ISBN. 288031002
Davey, Neil K. Netsuke; A Comprehensive Study Based on the M.T. Hindson Collection. Sotheby, Parke, Bernet/Faber & Faber, London, 1974. Revised edition 1981
Earle, Joe, An Introduction to Netsuke. V&A Museum/Compton/Pitman House, London, 1980. ISBN. 0273014536
Earle, Joe An Introduction to Netsuke. V&A Museum/Compton/Pitman House, London, 1980
Goodall, Hollis, with contributors, The Raymond and Frances Bushell Collection of Netsuke: A Legacy at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 2003. ISBN. 1588860345
Hutt, Julia, Japanese Netsuke, V&A Publications, London, 2003. ISBN. 1851773827
Jirka-Schmitz, Patrizia, Netsuke: 112 Masterpieces: The Trumpf Collection (in German and English), vol. 1; ISBN. 3925369
Jirka-Schmitz, Patrizia, Netsuke: Gurtelschmuck aus Japan die Sammlung Trumpf (in German), vol. 2, Linden-Museum Stuttgart, Arnoldische Art Publishers, 2000
Kinsey, Miriam, Contemporary Netsuke. Tuttle, Rutland and Tokyo, 1977
Sandfield, Norman L., The Ultimate Netsuke Bibliography: An Annotated Guide to Miniature Japanese Carvings, Chicago, Illinois, 1999. ISBN. 1878529560
Stern, Harold P., Those Magnificant Three: Lacquer, Netsuke and Tsuba. Japan House Gallery, New York, 1972
Ballgowns: British Glamour Since 1950
From 19 May 2012 the V&A celebrates the opening of the newly renovated Fashion Galleries with an exhibition of beautiful ballgowns, red carpet evening dresses and catwalk showstoppers.
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Japanese Art and Design (New edition)
'Both a good read and a stimulating picture book' Ceramic Review
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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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