Brilliance: Jewelry Art and Fashion
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Author: Stoehrer, Emily
The renowned collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, showcases global stories of human ingenuity through an incredible array of jewelry designs, materials and techniques. Included are works by Alexander Calder, Art Smith, Elsa Peretti, Bulgari, Tiffany & Co. and many others. Brilliance explores jewelry as a decorative art over the course of four thousand years. This book features more than 100 works complete with gorgeous reproductions.From ancient Egyptian broad collars to contemporary studio pieces, jewelry has been used as a powerful communication tool across millennia—and around the world. Each object boasts a unique history of its own; when considered side by side, however, they speak to one another, these cross-cultural and multigenerational conversations inviting the reader to consider new insights and fresh perspectives on the art form. Object spotlights written by celebrated art historians and artists working in the field today accompany these essays, with writing by Joyce J. Scott, Helen Drutt, Melanie Grant and many more. In championing the breadth and depth of the MFA’s collection, Brilliance includes both exquisitely humble and extraordinarily detailed objects that together illustrate the timeless human desires to self-fashion, collect and create. Whether in silver or gold, pearls or plastic, jewelry tells many multifaceted stories about its makers, wearers, collectors and, ultimately, human nature as a whole.
ISBN 9780878469055. MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. hb. 224 pages. 120 colour ills. 27.4 x 23.5 cm.
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The renowned collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, showcases global stories of human ingenuity through an incredible array of jewelry designs, materials and techniques. Included are works by Alexander Calder, Art Smith, Elsa Peretti, Bulgari, Tiffany & Co. and many others. Brilliance explores jewelry as a decorative art over the course of four thousand years. This book features more than 100 works complete with gorgeous reproductions.From ancient Egyptian broad collars to contemporary studio pieces, jewelry has been used as a powerful communication tool across millennia—and around the world. Each object boasts a unique history of its own; when considered side by side, however, they speak to one another, these cross-cultural and multigenerational conversations inviting the reader to consider new insights and fresh perspectives on the art form. Object spotlights written by celebrated art historians and artists working in the field today accompany these essays, with writing by Joyce J. Scott, Helen Drutt, Melanie Grant and many more. In championing the breadth and depth of the MFA’s collection, Brilliance includes both exquisitely humble and extraordinarily detailed objects that together illustrate the timeless human desires to self-fashion, collect and create. Whether in silver or gold, pearls or plastic, jewelry tells many multifaceted stories about its makers, wearers, collectors and, ultimately, human nature as a whole.
ISBN 9780878469055. MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. hb. 224 pages. 120 colour ills. 27.4 x 23.5 cm.
available