
Beyond Bling
Contemporary Jewelry from the Lois Boardman Collection
Prestel (Publisher)
Published on 15. November 2016
Book
Hardback
232 pages
978-3-7913-5562-7 (ISBN)
Description
This important collection of contemporary jewelry, recently donated to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, reveals how studio jewelers have transformed the medium by confronting social issues and exploring new technologies and unconventional materials. Consisting of over 300 objects from the United States, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, the collection is by turns edgy, experimental, and even disturbing. Objects range from a necklace featuring a gold cast of a rodent skull to a ring made from a hand- wrought, white-gold nail, bent and thrust through a large smoky quartz. With hundreds of new images and five incisive essays, the book brings this little-known collection to light.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Munich
Germany
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
Illustrations; 278 Illustrations, color
Dimensions
Height: 255 mm
Width: 216 mm
Weight
1196 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-7913-5562-7 (9783791355627)
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