The V & A Album 5. THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ART

pp. 388, bross., 31 X 20 cm, num. ill. / tav., col., b/n - CONTENTS -- Foreword, Forward, Forward Jean Muir, CBE, RDI, FSIAD 10- Recent Acquisitions 13- The Philosophy of Museum Display - The Continuing Debate Charles Saumarez Smith 30- Paintings on Copper at Apsley House David Scrase 40- Trompe L'Oeil: Visual Deception in European Art Gillian Saunders 58- Gothic Interiors of the 19th Century: John Gregory Crace at Abney Hall Megan Aldrich 76- Twentieth Century Sitting Geoffrey Opie 96- Biscuit Tins: A Lost Christmas Tradition M J Franklin 118- Flower Carpets of the Great Mughals Rosemary Crill 128- Ladies' Court Dress: Economy and Magnificence Madeleine Ginsburg 142- A Singular Substitute: Batiks of the North Coast of Java Deborah Swallow 156- Reflections Upon Gianni Versace's Work: Tradition and Innovation 1980 to 1984- Rosa Maria Letts and Valerie Mendes 174- Roger Mayne: Southam Street Revisited Mark Haworth-Booth 192- From Today 'Modernism' is Dead! Functionalism as Style?- Susan Lambert and John Murdoch 206- Susie Cooper. Her Pre-war Productions: 1922-1939 Ann Eatwell 224- Modernism and English Silver Eric Turner 240- Desert Island Objects - Howard Hodgkin Selects John Guy 256- Objects from a Medieval Treasury Paul Williamson 272- The Secular Tradition in Medieval Metalwork Marian Campbell 290- Jewels for the Mughal Court Susan Stronge 308- Chinese Taste and Eighteenth Century Porcelain Rose Kerr 326- Sèvres Porcelain in the V&A: New Light on Some Eighteenth Century Hard-paste Rarities- Aileen Dawson 342- Dolls Old and New: The Doll Gallery at the Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood- Caroline G Goodfellow 354- The Dandy as Social Revolutionary Stephen Jones 374- Contributors 383- Advertisers Index 387 - ISBN: 1 851770771