Jewellery in the age of modernism 1918–1940 : adornment and beyond 1st ed.

Author

• Bliss, Simon

Additional Author(s)

-

Publisher

New York: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020

Language

English

ISBN

9781501326820

Series

Material culture of art and design

Subject(s)

• ART AND SOCIETY
• JEWELRY

Notes

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Abstract

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.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (xiv, 200p.)

Dimension

-

Other Desc.

ill.

Summary / Review / Table of Content

Front matter
Introduction 1–6
1. Wearing (and Not Wearing) Jewellery in the 1920s 7–40
2. New Women: The Jewellery of Charlotte Perriand and Nancy Cunard 41–76
3. Modernism and Modernity 77–118
4. Representing Jewellery: Photography and Film 119–150
5. Displaying Jewellery 1920–1939 151–182
Conclusion 183–188
Back matter

Exemplar(s)

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1.	00259/21	739.27200904 Bli J	Online !	Available