A History of Jewellery, 1100-1870
A History of Jewellery, 1100-1870

Author: Joan Evans

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 1989-01-01

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 9780486261225

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Superb sourcebook of rare ornamentation includes meticulously detailed narrative and 400 illustrations depicting priceless brooches, necklaces, clasps, gold padlock, reliquary pendants, much more.

Jewellery in the Age of Modernism 1918-1940
Jewellery in the Age of Modernism 1918-1940

Author: Simon Bliss

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2018-11-15

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1501326813

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Why has jewellery and body adornment often been marginalized in studies of modernist art and design? This study explores the relationship between jewellery, modernism and modernity from the 'jazz age' to the second world war in order to challenge the view that these portable art forms have only a minor role to play in histories of modernism. From the masterworks of the Parisian jewellery houses to the film and photography of Man Ray, this study seeks to present jewellery in a new light, where issues of representation and display are considered to be as important in the creation of a modern 'jewellery culture' as the objects themselves. Drawing on material from museums, archives, contemporary journals, memoirs, literary and theoretical texts, this study shows how the emergence of modern jewellery began to seriously question conventional notions of body adornment.

Hammering Techniques in Greek and Roman Jewellery and Toreutics
Hammering Techniques in Greek and Roman Jewellery and Toreutics

Author: Treister

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-11-29

Total Pages: 649

ISBN-13: 9004497250

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This book traces the development of hammering techniques in Greek, Roman and related (e.g. Graeco-Scythian) jewellery and toreutics based on the analysis of ancient tools used for manufacture of hammered metalwork, primarily punches and matrices with figural designs, and actual finds of metalwork and jewellery. The book offers essays on metalworkers' tools from Mycenean Greece until the Late Roman Period. It includes chapters on different categories of hammered metalwork in the corresponding periods and Excursus about particular matrices or punches and hoards of toreutics. Bringing together the tools of metalworkers and actual objects manufactured with them opens new perspectives on chronological and cultural attribution of ancient jewellery and toreutics and illuminates the role of mass production and artistic creativity in ancient history. The book is illustrated with 133 photographs.

The Material and the Ideal
The Material and the Ideal

Author: Anthony Cutler

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 9004162860

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The volume ranges from the close examination of specific objects to larger questions of their signification for the medieval societies that fashioned them and the ways in which they have been, and are currently, interpreted.

Everyday Life in Egypt in the Days of Ramesses The Great
Everyday Life in Egypt in the Days of Ramesses The Great

Author: Pierre Montet

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 1981

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 9780812211139

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Our understanding of the lives of royalty and priests, artisans and professionals, peasants and slaves are all enhanced by Montet's sensitive and insightful appreciation for the ancient Egyptians.