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Olivia Horsfall Turner is Senior Curator of Architecture and Design at the Victoria and Albert Museum, where she looks after the collection of design drawings which document the creative process in art, architecture and design from the fourteenth century to the present day. She also writes, lectures and broadcasts about architecture, history and ideas.
‘In Owen Jones and the V&A: Ornament for a modern age (Lund Humphries), Olivia Horsfall Turner deftly places Jones in the vanguard of the design revolution, charting his key role in the decoration of the Great Exhibition and the V&A’s “Oriental Court”, and highlighting his equally innovative Examples of Chinese Ornament (1867). Horsfall Turner is level-headed about Jones’s “Orientalism”, but concludes that he decisively put non-western design sources centre stage.’ – James Hall, *TLS Books of the Year * 'Horsfall Turner’s book makes a fundamental contribution to the recognition of Owen Jones’s place in the history of Victorian art. It also has the strong merit of demonstrating that ornament is not just mere decoration but is always at the centre of much more complex sociopolitical and economic dynamics.' – Ariane Varela Braga, The Burlington Magazine
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