The new jewelry: Trends and traditions

The new jewelry: Trends and traditions image
ISBN-10:

050023406X

ISBN-13:

9780500234068

Author(s): Peter Dormer
Edition: First U.S. Edition
Released: Jan 01, 1985
Format: Paperback, 192 pages
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Description:

Jewellery has come alive again. 20 years ago a mere handful of designers in Europe and America were fighting the cliches of conventional design. Today there has been, in Ralph Turner's words, a "burgeoning of many kinds of ornament". Comprehensively revised and updated to incorporate the challenging work of the late 1980s and the 1990s, this book now presents in three sections the very latest examples of contemporary inventiveness. Mainstream abstract jewellery encompasses the diversity of modern ornament; whilst contemporary figurative jewellery is made by artists who sculpt and model in precious metals or everyday materials; and today's "jewellery as theatre" features radical workers and their controversial "wearables". Recent trends are given a special section of their own.











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