Jewellery in the Age of Modernism 1918-1940 - Adornment and Beyond

Why has jewellery and body adornment often been marginalized in studies of modernist art and design? This study explores the relationship between jewellery, modernism and modernity from the 'jazz age' to the second world war in order to challenge the view that these portable art forms have only a minor role to play in histories of modernism.From the masterworks of the Parisian jewellery houses to the film and photography of Man Ray, this study seeks to present jewellery in a new light, where issues of representation and display are considered to be as important in the creation of a modern 'jewellery culture' as the objects themselves.Drawing on material from museums, archives, contemporary journals, memoirs, literary and theoretical texts, this study shows how the emergence of modern jewellery began to seriously question conventional notions of body adornment.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: Wearing (and not wearing) jewellery in the 1920s
Chapter 2: New Women: The jewellery of Charlotte Perriand and Nancy Cunard
Chapter 3: Modernism and modernity
Chapter 4: Representing jewellery: Film and photography
Chapter 5: Displaying jewellery 1920-1939
Conclusion

About the author

Simon Bliss is Senior Lecturer, College of Arts and Humanities, University of Brighton, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Simon Bliss, Simon (University of Brighton Bliss
• Assisted by: Michael Yonan (Editor), Michael E. Yonan (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9781501326790
• ISBN: 978-1-5013-2679-0
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 232 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Material Culture of Art and De; Material Culture of Art and Design; Material Culture of Art and De; Material Culture of Art and Design
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Art > Antiques; Theory of art, ART / General, ART / Criticism & Theory, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), CRAFTS & HOBBIES / Jewelry, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -