Showing, Telling, Seeing: Exhibiting South Asia in Britain, 1900–Now
Supporting the Spectacle: The Summer Exhibition and its Spin-Offs Bryony Botwright-Rance introduces the new Drawing Room Display, which features published material relating to the history of the Summer Exhibition. To coincide with the forthcoming Royal Academy show, The Great Spectacle: 250 years of the Summer Exhibition, the PMC’s ninth Drawing Room Display will investigate the varied kinds of publication that have been prompted by the Summer Exhibition over its long history. As well as showcasing the Academy’s own publications – in particular, its Summer Exhibition catalogues and the Royal Academy Illustrated – the display will focus on the especially rich array of exhibition-related guides, pamphlets and illustrated supplements that were issued by other publishers in the latter part of the nineteenth century. The display will draw upon the PMC’s substantial collection of catalogues, journals and ephemera, and is designed to provide a brief introduction to this little-investigated yet fascinating subject.
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