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A cross-cultural examination of bijou spanning 5,000 years that investigates not solely the objects themselves but additionally the our bodies they embellished
As an artwork kind, jewellery is outlined primarily by its connection to and interplay with the physique—extending it, amplifying it, accentuating it, distorting it, concealing it, or reworking it. However how is the that means of bijou certain to the physique that wears it?
Establishing six completely different modes of ornamenting the physique—Deconstructed, Divine, Regal, Idealized, Alluring, and Resplendent—this artfully designed e-book illustrates how these varied definitions of the physique give that means to the jewellery that adorns it. Greater than 200 examples of remarkable jewellery and ornaments, created throughout the globe from antiquity to the current, are proven alongside work and sculptures of bejeweled our bodies to display the social, political, and aesthetic position of bijou. From earflares of warrior heroes in Pre-Columbian Peru to designs by Yves Saint-Laurent, these valuable and most intimate artistic endeavors present perception not solely in regards to the wearer but additionally into the designers, artisans, and cultures that produced them.
Revealed by The Metropolitan Museum of Artwork/Distributed by Yale College Press
Exhibition Schedule:
The Metropolitan Museum of Artwork, New York
(11/12/18–02/24/19)
Writer : Metropolitan Museum of Artwork (November 12, 2018)
Language : English
Hardcover : 280 pages
ISBN-10 : 1588396509
ISBN-13 : 978-1588396501
Merchandise Weight : 3.48 kilos
Dimensions : 9.5 x 1.25 x 10.25 inches
