FROISSART Rossella.
A new art: Metamorphoses of jewelry.
Norma Editions / The School of Jewelry Arts
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€39,00
| N° d'inventaire | 29499 |
| Format | 22 x 28 |
| Détails | 208 p., illustrated, publisher's hardcover. |
| Publication | Paris, 2023 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782376660750 |
Jewelry occupies a central place in the profound evolution that aesthetics experienced from the 1880s onwards. Far from being the simple reflection of a history of art that was being written elsewhere – in the “major” fields of painting, sculpture or architecture – it participated in the radical renewal of an imagination fertilized by the expansion of scientific knowledge and by its diffusion in a widely shared visual culture.
The reflection on the representation of life, of the forces that animate it and of the principles that determine its construction takes on an original meaning for artists, artisans and manufacturers whose primary source of creation is matter: a changing and malleable matter that suggests dynamic flows, but also a formidably resistant, sumptuous and phantasmagorical matter.
Receptive to historicist inspirations, engaged in symbolist research and Art Nouveau, then sensitive to the new decorative order, the great names of Falize, Boucheron, Vever or Fouquet rub shoulders with those of artists such as René Lalique, Eugène Grasset, Alphonse Mucha, Henry Nocq, Jules Desbois or Édouard Monod-Herzen in a shared desire to place jewelry at the heart of the invention of forms.
Accompanied by a glossary of materials and techniques and an extensive bibliography, this work allows us to understand the extraordinary rise of the art of jewelry and jewelry making in France between 1880 and 1914.
The reflection on the representation of life, of the forces that animate it and of the principles that determine its construction takes on an original meaning for artists, artisans and manufacturers whose primary source of creation is matter: a changing and malleable matter that suggests dynamic flows, but also a formidably resistant, sumptuous and phantasmagorical matter.
Receptive to historicist inspirations, engaged in symbolist research and Art Nouveau, then sensitive to the new decorative order, the great names of Falize, Boucheron, Vever or Fouquet rub shoulders with those of artists such as René Lalique, Eugène Grasset, Alphonse Mucha, Henry Nocq, Jules Desbois or Édouard Monod-Herzen in a shared desire to place jewelry at the heart of the invention of forms.
Accompanied by a glossary of materials and techniques and an extensive bibliography, this work allows us to understand the extraordinary rise of the art of jewelry and jewelry making in France between 1880 and 1914.
The reflection on the representation of life, of the forces that animate it and of the principles that determine its construction takes on an original meaning for artists, artisans and manufacturers whose primary source of creation is matter: a changing and malleable matter that suggests dynamic flows, but also a formidably resistant, sumptuous and phantasmagorical matter.
Receptive to historicist inspirations, engaged in symbolist research and Art Nouveau, then sensitive to the new decorative order, the great names of Falize, Boucheron, Vever or Fouquet rub shoulders with those of artists such as René Lalique, Eugène Grasset, Alphonse Mucha, Henry Nocq, Jules Desbois or Édouard Monod-Herzen in a shared desire to place jewelry at the heart of the invention of forms.
Accompanied by a glossary of materials and techniques and an extensive bibliography, this work allows us to understand the extraordinary rise of the art of jewelry and jewelry making in France between 1880 and 1914.