Artefact: V and A

Possible lines of exploration:

Women as artefacts

Artefacts and memory (photographs etc)

Nature as artefact

Intend to derive

“The Museum has constantly evolved in its collecting and public interpretation of art and design.”

“Its collections span 5,000 years of human creativity in virtually every medium”

The depiction of women, the appropriation of an iconic image or artefact and how it changes in different contexts: https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/botticelli-and-pulp-fiction

Japanese woodblock prints, depictions of the everyday, Hokusai’s wave – nature as artefact, explore folklore, myth and heroism:

https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/japanese-woodblock-prints-ukiyo-e

Goddess, the changing meaning of an artefact, recycling/cultural appropriation:

https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/rolling-stones-lips-and-tongue-logo-by-jon-pasche-1970

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