On and Off Jewelry in the Wider Cultural Field |
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| Editor:
| Lignel, Benjamin |
| Author:
| Beytelmann, David
Borell, Nigel
Bulté, Cécile
Brugger, Monika
Cohn, Susan
Conticello, Anna
den Besten, Liesbeth
Emmelkamp, Rutger
Ewington, Julie
Gaspar, Mònica
Knott, Stephen
LeVan, Marthe
Lignel, Baptiste
Moore, Jillian
Mulqueen, Stephen
Murphy, Elizabeth
Murray, Kevin
Quick, Kerianne
Ramljak, Suzanne
Rizwan, Amina
Skinner, Damian
Stoehrer, Emily
Timothy Information Limited,
Gupta Wiggers, Namita
Zapf, Marilyn |
| Illustrator:
| de Lavilléon, Artus |
| Assisted by:
| Mornu, Nathalie |
| Translator:
| MacVane, Sara |
| ISBN: | 978-0-9864229-1-1 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2016 |
| Publisher: | Art Jewelry Forum
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $25.00 |
Book Description:
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State secretary Madeline Albright is famous for inviting world leaders to "read her pins": these pins provided running commentaries - in turn trenchant or compassionate - on the geopolitical situation and hand, and have become textbook example of jewelry's agency in the public arena. Jewelry will meddle in human affairs. It will bear witness to transfers of authority, seal alliances, stand proud over your scholastic achievements or discreetly signals that, no, not tonight, thank you...
More DescriptionState secretary Madeline Albright is famous for inviting world leaders to "read her pins": these pins provided running commentaries - in turn trenchant or compassionate - on the geopolitical situation and hand, and have become textbook example of jewelry's agency in the public arena. Jewelry will meddle in human affairs. It will bear witness to transfers of authority, seal alliances, stand proud over your scholastic achievements or discreetly signals that, no, not tonight, thank you very much. And of course, human affairs will inform the conception, intended use and abuse of jewelry: contemporary makers, in particular, are defined by the range and inclusiveness of their cultural baggage.This conversation between incorporated social norms and artistic intentions is the subject of Art Jewelry Forum's next publication: a collection of 30 short essays on jewelry in the wider cultural realm. These essays, in the spirit of the age, touch upon sex, domination, self-identification, territory and death. These essays, in the spirit of AJF, invite some of the meaty subjects of human affairs at the jewelry table: cultural appropriation, social engineering, political propaganda, or jewelry-mediated empowerment. About half of the essays will analyze individual works, while the other half will engage with jewelry's agency in the social, political, and private sphere. The choice to cast a wide net reflects Art Jewelry Forum's mission to report on contemporary practice as well as on those phenomena that inform and complicate jewelry's history.