Jewellery has come alive again. 20 years ago a mere handful of designers in Europe and America were fighting the cliches of conventional design. Today there has been, in Ralph Turner's words, a "burgeoning of many kinds of ornament". Comprehensively revised and updated to incorporate the challenging work of the late 1980s and the 1990s, this book now presents in three sections the very latest examples of contemporary inventiveness. Mainstream abstract jewellery encompasses the diversity of modern ornament; whilst contemporary figurative jewellery is made by artists who sculpt and model in precious metals or everyday materials; and today's "jewellery as theatre" features radical workers and their controversial "wearables". Recent trends are given a special section of their own.
- ISBN10 0500277745
- ISBN13 9780500277744
- Publish Date 24 October 1994 (first published 6 May 1985)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 27 August 2006
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Thames & Hudson Ltd
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 216
- Language English