Thinking Jewellery On the Way Towards a Theory of Jewellery

by Lindemann, Wilhelm

• ISBN13: 9783897903265
• ISBN10: 3897903261
• Edition: Bilingual
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-07-16
• Publisher: Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt

Summary

What is jewellery? This new publication is a reflection on that question. Here is an interdisciplinary approach transcending the familiar categories crafts or art, applied or fine. What matters here is exploring what jewellery is - not what it looks like

Table of Contents

Thinking Jewellery - a process Schmuck Denken - ein Prozess	p. 7
Thinking Jewellery. A theory of jewellery Schmuck Denken. Eine Theorie des Schmucks	p. 11
Making Jewellery 1	p. 41
Against method in the applied arts	p. 73
Head jewellery - a theory of the theory of jewellery	p. 81
æDiamonds are a girl's best friend'-The psychology of jewellery as beloved objects	p. 95
Lifelines: myth a meaning - learning and teaching	p. 109
Bananas of all things: how Adolf Loos handled ornamentation or the evolution of culture	p. 121
The magic object in modernism - an anthropological constant?	p. 135
Making Jewellery 2	p. 153
Pimp my black! Black death jewellery in youth subcultures	p. 185
An object of beauty	p. 197
West African fetish cult and European fetishism	p. 219
Jewellery from the Orient as a source of inspiration	p. 237
Making Jewellery 3	p. 249
Educating the costumer aesthetic	p. 281
Jewellery as an indicator of gender subjectivity	p. 295
Temptation	p. 303
Recycling forms	p. 321
Appendix/Anhang
Making Jewellery 1-3	p. 328
Thinking Jewellery 1-7	p. 337
Author biographies / Autorenbiografien	p. 347
Photo credits / Bildnachweis	p. 352
Imprint / Impressum	p. 352
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