Jewelry : the body transformed

Author:

Holcomb, Melanie

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Imprint:

New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2018]

Subject:

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) - Exhibitions
Jewelry - Exhibitions
Jewelry - History - Exhibitions
Jewelry - New York (State) - New York - Exhibitions

Contributor:

Benzel, Kim
Lee, Soyoung
Patch, Diana Craig
Pillsbury, Joanne
Wees, Beth Carver
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

ISBN:

9781588396501 and 1588396509

Description:

279 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Notes:

Catalog of an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from November 12, 2018-February 24, 2019 and "What is jewelry? Why do we wear it? What meanings does it carry? Traversing time and space, this exhibition explores how jewelry acts upon and activates the body it adorns. This global conversation about one of the most personal and universal of art forms brings together some 230 objects drawn almost exclusively from The Met collection. A dazzling array of headdresses and ear ornaments, brooches and belts, necklaces and rings will be shown along with sculptures, paintings, prints, and photographs that will enrich and amplify the many stories of transformation that jewelry tells." -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website

Bibliographic Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-261) and index

Summary:

As an art form, jewelry is defined primarily through its connection to and interaction with the body--extending it, amplifying it, accentuating it, distorting it, concealing it, or transforming it. But how is the meaning of jewelry bound to the body that wears it? Establishing six different modes of ornamenting the body--Deconstructed, Divine, Regal, Idealized, Alluring, and Resplendent--this artfully designed book illustrates how these various definitions of the body give meaning to the jewelry that adorns it. More than 200 examples of exceptional jewelry and ornaments, created across the globe from antiquity to the present, are shown alongside paintings and sculptures of bejeweled bodies to demonstrate the social, political, and aesthetic role of jewelry. From earflares of warrior heroes in Pre-Columbian Peru to designs by Yves Saint-Laurent, these precious and most intimate works of art provide insight not only about the wearer but also into the designers, artisans, and cultures that produced them. Exhibition: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA (12.11.2018-24.02.2019)

Collection:

BGC Monograph Stacks

Call Number:

NK7301.N4 M48 2018

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