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Birkitts Books presents ... Jewelry of Our Time: Art, Ornament and Obsession ISBN: 0847819140 Author: Helen Drutt English; Peter Dormer Publisher: Rizzoli Release Date: 1995-11-14 Seller Category: Fashion Qty Available: 1 Condition: Used: Very Good Sku: 230716003 Notes: Jacket has light wear to edges and rubbing, binding sound, internally clean. Jewelry has undergone an unprecedented revolution in recent decades. Personal adornment has always attracted wide interest, but since the 1960s jewelry has found fresh inspiration. Influences from other arts, the use of surprising materials and the desire to make an individual statement or even to tell a story, have all combined to create a new and exciting movement. No one is in a better position to examine this phenomenon than Helen W. Drutt English, the renowned American educator whose huge and energetic contribution to nurturing the whole subject has made her a central figure in its development. Her patronage of exceptionally talented but initially little-known jewelers from the United States, Europe and elsewhere has been enormously influential. In this book she has come together with the English writer Peter Dormer ? co-author of The New Jewelry (first published in 1984) ? to examine the whole phenomenon in detail. The book has three essential elements. Firstly, an unrivalled display of the jewelry itself, making use of visually innovative special photography: hundreds of colour photographs provide a da77Iing array of rich and imaginative work, as well as an unsurpassed reference document for contemporary jewelry. Secondly, an equally innovative critical history, tracing the first challenges to traditional forms of jewelry, but focusing on the inspired use of new materials, new processes, new tools and new ideas since 1960. And finally, an important reference section, including detailed biographies of over a hundred makers; an extended bibliography; and a comprehensive chronology of exhibitions and events held in public museums throughout the world. This book, an essential work of referenCe for collectors, artists, curators and students of twentieth-century art, craft and jewelry, will also reach a far wider audience with its superlative photographs and acute analysis of the web of influences and cross-influences among the new jewelers. With 586 illustrations, 458 in colour Don't forget to check out other great deals in our Store!!