Place and adornment : a history of contemorary jewellery in Australia and New Zealand / Damian Skinner and Kevin Murray.
Publication details: Auckland, N.Z. : David Bateman, 2014.Description: 248 p. : ill. ; 29 cmISBN:- 9781869538200 (hbk.)
- 186953820X (hbk.)
- History of contemorary jewellery in Australia and New Zealand
- 739.270994 23
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction large size | 739.270 SKI | Available | 057992 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-244) and index.
1. Antecedents -- 2. Transplanting modernism, 1960-1975 -- 3. Unleashing the local, 1975-1980 -- 4. Hermann Jünger Down Under, 1982 -- 5. Here or there, 1980-1990 -- 6. The return to jewellery, 1990-2000 -- 7. The promise of place.
A History of Contemporary Jewellery in Australia and New Zealand: Place and Adornment is the first comprehensive history of contemporary jewellery in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. It tells the remarkable story of how two countries, far from the jewellery centres of Europe and North America, have managed to contribute to an international art form, transforming jewellery from an imitation of European taste into an original expression of place. In this richly illustrated book, authors Damian Skinner and Kevin Murray bring together detailed analysis of objects and historical sources to show how contemporary jewellery offered a way to negotiate relationships between settler and indigenous cultures, to find beauty in humble materials, to appreciate the natural environment, and to test conventions of art, gender and identity.
