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The House of Mirrors
  • Language: en

The House of Mirrors

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Metalsmith
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 422

Metalsmith

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Jewelry of Our Time
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 360

Jewelry of Our Time

An illustrated survey of comtemporary jewellery and its developments since 1960. It has three major elements. Firstly, it has a display of the jewellery itself, photographed in colour. Secondly, it provides a critical history, tracing the first challenges to traditional forms of jewellery as early as the 1930s but focusing on the inspired use of new tools, new materials and new ideas since 1960. Finally, it has a reference section correcting previous information on the subject, including biographies of over a hundred makers.

Edge of the Sublime
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 162

Edge of the Sublime

  • Categories: Art

A beautifully illustrated catalogue of over 100 color plates, it addresses artist's lifework who first established his international reputation in 1986 when he produced enameled jewelry using unique, electroformed shapes.

The Grace of Four Moons
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 528

The Grace of Four Moons

  • Categories: Art

Because clothing, food, and shelter are basic human needs, they provide excellent entries to cultural values and individual aesthetics. Everyone gets dressed every day, but body art has not received the attention it deserves as the most common and universal of material expressions of culture. The Grace of Four Moons aims to document the clothing decisions made by ordinary people in their everyday lives. Based on fieldwork conducted primarily in the city of Banaras, India, Pravina Shukla conceptualizes and realizes a total model for the study of body art—understood as all aesthetic modifications and supplementations to the body. Shukla urges the study of the entire process of body art, from the assembly of raw materials and the manufacture of objects, through their sale and the interactions between merchants and consumers, to the consumer's use of objects in creating personal decoration.

Beyond Bling
  • Language: en

Beyond Bling

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016
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  • Publisher: Prestel

"Published in conjunction with the exhibition Beyond Bling: Jewelry from the Lois Boardman Collection at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California (October 2, 2016 -February 5, 2017)"--

Ceramics, Art and Perception
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 516

Ceramics, Art and Perception

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Quiet Elegance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 176

Quiet Elegance

- First complete overview of Eleanor Moty's oeuvre - Masterful compositions with gems and metalwork - Six decades of jewelry from America Eleanor Moty (b. 1945) from the US is a seminal figure in the field of contemporary international studio jewelry. In a career that has spanned more than 50 years, she has been both a dedicated practitioner and a devoted teacher who has inspired succeeding generations of artists, collectors, and fellow professionals. She began to attract national attention in the late 1960s and early 1970s for her experiments with photoetching and electroforming metal. Later, mid-career, Moty made what seems like an abrupt shift in style and focus, with more abstract works whose designs were inspired by the natural inclusions within the non-precious gems used in their fabrication. While her works have been published in prominent books, catalogs, and journals internationally, this monograph is the first comprehensive in-depth examination of her career from its inception in 1967 through the present day.

American Ceramics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 280

American Ceramics

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Ruling Devotion
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 313

Ruling Devotion

From 1800 onwards, the Hindu temple occupied a fragile and uneasy proximity to Imperial governance in India. The colonial state sought to regulate and extract the wealth of large temples. Imperial scholars classified the extraordinary diversity of architectural forms from across India, and selected temples were defined as monuments and brought into the custody of Imperial archaeology. Over time, the Imperial literary imagination transformed the Hindu temple from a place of worship and devotion into a space of wealth, sensuality, and violence. However, the Hindu temple also tested the Imperial state. Devotees and trustees manipulated and rejected attempts at governance, and the Hindu temple b...