Jewellery in the Age of Modernism 1918-1940

Adornment and Beyond

Dr Simon Bliss (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

232 Seiten

2018
Bloomsbury Visual Arts (Verlag)
9781501326790 (ISBN)

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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.

Simon Bliss is Senior Lecturer, College of Arts and Humanities, University of Brighton, UK.

Introduction
Chapter 1: Wearing (and not wearing) jewellery in the 1920s
Chapter 2: New Women: The jewellery of Charlotte Perriand and Nancy Cunard
Chapter 3: Modernism and modernity
Chapter 4: Representing jewellery: Film and photography
Chapter 5: Displaying jewellery 1920-1939
Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	19.11.2018
Reihe/Serie	Material Culture of Art and Design
Zusatzinfo	48 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 232 mm
Gewicht	480 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
ISBN-13	9781501326790 / 9781501326790
Zustand	Neuware