Jewelry - by Melanie Holcomb (Hardcover)
Similar Products
Products of same category from the store
All
Product info
<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Catalog of an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from November 12, 2018-February 24, 2019.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>A cross-cultural examination of jewelry spanning 5,000 years that investigates not only the objects themselves but also the bodies they decorated</b> <p/> 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? <p/> 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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"The lushly illustrated exhibition catalogue includes some fine, informative essays by Met curators, among them Beth Carver Wees on the history of parures and John Guy on the relationship between representations of Hindu gods and the jewels that adorn them. . . .that the volume exists at all is worthy of praise."--Paula Weideger, <i> Introspective Magazine</i> <p/><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Melanie Holcomb</b> is curator in the Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters; <b>Kim Benzel</b> is curator in charge in the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art; <b>Soyoung Lee</b> is curator in the Department of Asian Art; <b>Diana Craig Patch</b> is Lila Acheson Wallace Curator in Charge in the Department of Egyptian Art; <b>Joanne Pillsbury</b> is Andrall E. Pearson Curator in the Department of Arts of Africa; and <b>Beth Carver Wees</b> is Ruth Bigelow Wriston Curator of American Decorative Arts in the American Wing, all at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Price History
Cheapest price in the interval: 38.49 on May 23, 2021
Most expensive price in the interval: 38.49 on November 8, 2021
Price Archive shows prices from various stores, lets you see history and find the cheapest. There is no actual sale on the website. For all support, inquiry and suggestion messagescommunication@pricearchive.us