Art as Jewellery: From Calder to Kapoor

Description

•Comprises an Creation By means of Vivienne Becker, an award-successful jewellery author, and a contribution from Julia Peyton Jones, earlier director of the Serpentine Gallery, London
•A marvellous array of pictures, from archived pictures and sketches that experience no longer been noticed because the ’60s, and the paintings of twentieth-century photographers reminiscent of Ugo Mulas and Antonia Mulas, to up to date shoots By means of Alexander English

“The ladies in Guy Ray’s existence, in addition to his reverence for the feminine shape extra extensively, had been mirrored in his jewellery. He saved the wearer in thoughts with each and every piece; by no means impractical or obvious, his jewels performed with phantasm, language and shape as he hired the medium to additional discover the inventive preoccupations of his occupation.”

Art as Jewelry is a visually shocking Creation to jewellery made By means of the titans of twentieth and twenty-first century Artwork. From Salvador Dalí, Guy Ray, Alexander Calder and Pablo Picasso, thru to Anish Kapoor, Damien Hirst and Grayson Perry, the nice figures of up to date Artwork have all grew to become each idea and ability to jewellery. Frequently, they’ve eschewed the normal jeweler’s preoccupation with subject material price and provenance, extra desirous about the conceptual or aesthetic importance in their paintings.

As is installing for a ebook that covers a variety of artists, each and every symbol is as putting as it’s distinctive. By means of the usage of latest footage, Artwork as Jewelry develops a chronological timeline of jewellery presentation. Its pages are house to a surprising number of layout sketches and pictures. A few had been shot By means of popular twentieth century photographers, reminiscent of Ugo Mulas and Antonia Mulas, whilst others had been buried in records for many years, unseen because the ’60s. By contrast, up to date works had been given style remedy By means of best photographer Alexander English, making this ebook a glamorous mix of recent and vintage Jewelry Artwork.

Author Louisa Guinness, collector and gallery proprietor, supplies insightful statement on each and every artist and their paintings. Her enter may also be felt on a private degree; having labored along many of those artists as they advanced their Jewelry, she is in the easiest place to show the non-public tales at the back of those items advent. Complete-web page colour pictures and sketches, A few appearing the artist at paintings within the studio, or with their muse, accompany each and every profile. Louisa additionally explores each and every artist within the context of the style’s evolution, taking a look on the key exhibitions that experience formed the pastime of artists and creditors. This ebook will likely be of pastime to jewellery and Artwork enthusiasts alike.

Contents:
Introduction
What is Artwork as Jewellery
Foreword
Artists (greater than 50 are coated)
Exhibitionsrenowned twentieth century photographers, reminiscent of Ugo Mulas and Antonia Mulas, whilst others had been buried in records for many years, unseen because the ’60s. By contrast, up to date works had been given style remedy By means of best photographer Alexander English, making this ebook a glamorous mix of recent and vintage Jewelry Artwork. Writer Louisa Guinness, collector and gallery proprietor, supplies insightful statement on each and every artist and their paintings. Her enter may also be felt on a private degree; having labored along many of those artists as they advanced their Jewelry, she is in the easiest place to show the non-public tales at the back of those items advent. Complete-web page colour pictures and sketches, A few appearing the artist at paintings within the studio, or with their muse, accompany each and every profile. Louisa additionally explores each and every artist within the context of the style’s evolution, taking a look on the key exhibitions that experience formed the pastime of artists and creditors. This ebook will likely be of pastime to jewellery and Artwork enthusiasts alike. Contents: Creation What’s Artwork as Jewelry Foreword Artists (greater than 50 are coated) Exhibitions