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)

Japanese Art and Design (New edition)

'Both a good read and a stimulating picture book' Ceramic Review

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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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