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Illustrating the illustrators: the V&A Illustration Awards

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Martin Flynn
Martin Flynn*
Affiliation:
Word & Image Department, Victoria and Albert Museum, London SW7 2RL, UK
*
Email: m.flynn@vam.ac.uk
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Abstract

The Victoria and Albert Museum has been running an illustration awards competition for nearly 40 years. This aims to recognise and reward the best quality illustration in books, newspapers, magazines and comics. However, the awards have suffered from being extremely labour-intensive, had a very low level of awareness in the industry amongst publishers and artists and produced minimal permanent records of the quality and range of their annual output. Recently the museum has begun addressing these issues.

Type
Research Article
Information
Art Libraries Journal , Volume 35 , Issue 3 , 2010 , pp. 45 - 50
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 2010

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