This lavishly illustrated book presents outstanding examples of one-of-a kind jewelry from the 1940s to the present drawn from the collection of the Museum of Arts &amp; Design in New York. The 288 pages guide the reader through a fascinating diversity of materials, technique and approaches that make contemporary jewelry visually exciting and intellectually stimulating. No longer dependent on gold and gemstones, these creations demonstrate that commonplace aluminum, rubber, glass, paper, thumbtacks, and even salvaged gun triggers can be made into dazzling jewelry. The international nature of today's jewelry is fully represented with established luminaries as well as emerging artists in the field from the United States, Europe, Asia and Australia including Gijs Bakker, Robert Ebendorf, Hermann Jünger, Sam Kramer, Otto Künzli, Linda MacNeil, Margaret DePatta, Bruno Martinazzi, Giò Pomodoro, Wendy Ramshaw, Art Smith, Kiff Slemmons, David Watkins, and Anna Maria Zanella. The book contains a foreword by Holly Hotchner, Director of the Museum of Arts &amp; Design; essay by Ursula Ilse-Neuman, Jewelry Curator of the Museum of Arts &amp; Design, surveying major trends in contemporary jewelry over the past 75 years; and over 200 full-color illustrations of works from the Museum's Permanent Collection.

Inspired Jewelry

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Ilse-Neuman, Ursula

Antiques & Collectibles

Antique Collectors Club Dist

Book by Schmuttermeier, Elisabeth, Ostergard, Derek E.

Cast Iron from Central Europe, 1800-1850

BÖrsch-Supan, Helmut

Stratton, Michael

Botstein, Leon

Ostergard, Derek E

Schmuttermeier, Elisabeth

Himmelheber, Georg

Adams, E. Bryding

Barkin, Kenneth D.

Marquardt, Brigitte

Pyritz, Albrecht

Antique Collectors’ Club Ltd

A catalogue for a 2001 exhibition at the American Craft Museum, New York from January to April and the Museum of California, Oakland, from June to September. Accompanying the color photographs are essays on philosophizing with a hammer and the urban cowboy as furniture maker.

Made in Oakland: The Furniture of Garry Knox Bennett

Danto, Arthur Coleman

Cooke, Edward S., Jr.

Bennett, Garry Knox

American Craft Museum (New York, N. Y.)

Oakland Museum

Amer Craft Museum

Catalogue of a major retrospective exhibition in Oakland and New York. Margaret De Patta is one of the most influential American women jewelers. One of the participants of the cult exhibit Modern Handmade Jewelry organized by MoMA in 1946 De Patta's work is highly collected and now housed in many museums, including MoMA, MFA Boston, Guggenheim and the Art Institute of Chicago. Accompanies exhibitions at both the Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, February - May 2012 and the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, June - September 2012 This publication is the catalogue of a retrospective exhibition on the work of pioneer jeweler Margaret De Patta. A seminal figure in the American Modernist Jewelry movement, De Patta trained as a painter in the Bay Area and at the Art Students League in New York. She began studying jewelry design in San Francisco, but her major learning experience was at Lazlo Moholy-Nagy's School of Design in Chicago (1940-41). Distinguished as one of the few American jewellers whose work and ideas were allied to the evolving ideas presented in the modern art movement, De Patta's work was heavily influenced by the Constructivists and features architectural forms with simple lines, structure, and often movable parts. Space - Light - Structure: The Jewelry of Margaret De Patta features more than sixty jewelry pieces as well as ceramics, flatware, photographs, pictograms, and newly released archival material.

Space Light Structure: The Jewelry of Margaret De Patta

Muñiz, Julie M.

Musem of Art & Design

This, the first survey of its kind, is comprised of 60 objects by artists from around the world who deliberately use glass in their jewellery.

GlassWear: Glass in Contemporary Jewelry

Holzach, Cornelie

Page, Jutta

Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt

The first in-depth monograph of leading American jeweler Linda MacNeilPresenting MacNeil's most significant piecesFully illustrated and containing an exhibition history, select bibliography, and list of museum collections where MacNeil's work can be foundAccompanies a retrospective exhibition organized by guest curator Davira S. Taragin for the Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WashingtonLinda MacNeil: Jewels of Glass is the first in-depth monograph to explore the development of leading American jeweler Linda MacNeil's jewelry and her contribution to late twentieth- and twenty-first century jewelry.MacNeil has inserted her voice into contemporary American jewelry as an innovator transforming glass into proxies for precious gemstones. She and her work have straddled the fields of Studio Glass and Studio Jewelry. A pioneer over her forty-and-counting-year career, she has united glass with metal and, recently, with precious gems. Exploring materiality and methodology, she uses historical precedent as a jumping off point to make stunning, wearable jewelry.This scholarly study presents approximately fifty of MacNeil's most significant pieces. Davira S. Taragin's essay interweaves MacNeil's biography with discussions of the development of her aesthetic. Noted jewelry historian Ursula Ilse-Neuman contextualizes MacNeil's achievement within the art jewelry movement in general and the use of glass in jewelry over the centuries.Davira S. Taragin: Formerly curator at The Detroit Institute of Arts (1978-90), the Toledo Museum of Art (1990-2002) and director of exhibitions and programmes at the Racine Art Museum (2002-2008), Davira S. Taragin is an independent curator specializing in placing works in contemporary craft media within the context of late twentieth- and twenty-first-century art. Since 2011, Taragin has worked with Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana. She began by assessing the decorative arts and design collection of the David Owsley Museum of Art and prepared for its reinstallation in September 2013. She is now serving as consultative curator to its School of Art. Ursula Ilse-Neuman is an independent curator, author, and lecturer specializing in contemporary art jewelry. She is consulting curator for the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, where, as curator from 1992 to 2014, she organized more than forty exhibitions in all media, most recently Multiple Exposures: Jewelry and Photography (May 2014). She has been a juror for national and international exhibitions, including the Schmuck presentation (Munich) and the International Jewelry Expo (Shanghai) and is a regular contributor to Metalsmith magazine. Ilse-Neuman has lectured widely in the United States, Europe, and Asia. In 2011, she was invited to curate the American section of Abhushan in New Delhi, organized by the World Craft Council.

Linda MacNeil: Jewels of Glass

Arts & Photography

Taragin, Davira S.

Graphic Design

With Ring Redux, the museum of Savannah College of Art and Design (Georgia, USA) presents more than a hundred avant garde rings by internationally renowned artists who explore this age-old jewelry form with great vitality and relevance to society today and have put forth their own interpretation of the ring and its ostensibly identical form. In the essay 'Riffs on Rings,' internationally respected jewellery curator Ursula Ilse-Neuman provides valuable insights into the astonishing variations on one of the most intimate and enduring forms of body adornment, revealing the profound and subtle differences in how these artists evoke the ring's potential to express ideas that extend beyond its ornamental role. The skill and audacity infused in these intimate sculptural forms is captured in stunning new colour photographs. In the 'Artists' Voices' section, the jewellers provide valuable perspectives on the conception and execution of their works. The collection of rings presented here has been acquired over five decades by Susan Grant Lewin and will be exhibited, concomitantly with the release of this publication, at the SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia.

Ring Redux: The Susan Grant Lewin Collection

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

The exhibition and its accompanying catalogue are the first to examine the union of contemporary jewelry and the photographic image, demonstrating how each of these mediums is informed and enlarged by an engagement with the other. The works included, both historical pieces and recent creations by over eighty international art jewelers, suggest the richness of this encounter and the artistic strength embodied in this dynamic combination of object and image. The examples selected for the exhibition and catalogue traverse a remarkably wide range, from traditional and even sentimental formats (such as the locket) to entirely new formats. Drawing upon the abundance of imagery available today, from vintage daguerreotypes to analog and digital photographs, X-rays, and Internet jpegs, the artists whose work was selected for Multiple Exposures: Jewelry and Photography express a stimulating range of ideas realized with a great diversity of materials and innovative jewelry-making approaches.

Multiple Exposures: Jewelry and Photography

Photography & Video

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