publications

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. Thinking Jewellery is the distilled result of a symposium with the same title that has been jointly hosted since 2005 by the Idar-Oberstein course in gem and jewellery design by Trier Polytechnic and the city of Idar-Oberstein. Each year in May more than a hundred jewellery designers, students and academics from all over Europe convene in Idar-Oberstein to conduct a comprehensive discourse without boundaries on the theoretical foundations of jewellery. The publication contains the most interesting lectures given over the five years since the Colloquium was instituted by major artists in jewellery, distinguished ethnologists, philosophers, psychologists, cultural anthropologists and scientists. Lavishly illustrated to showcase the objects discussed, it documents the standards so spectacularly achieved by the Idar-Oberstein Jewellery Institute.

"ThinkingJewellery" fascinatingly exemplifies the productive interaction of theoretical reflection and practical execution. MORE 

Leseprobe

this catalogue offers a lot of images and a description of the MA-study

German/English, 64 pages.

13 Euro + shipment

Look in the book

this catalogue has been made in cooperation with gallery aurum in frankfurt. it accoompagnied the exhibition nsaio 2 (neuer Schnuck aus Idar-oberstein = new jewelelry from Idar-Oberstein)

Deutsch, 16 Seiten.

4 Euro + shipment

Look in the book

(on jewellery and gems)

the state of the art anno 1996...

Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt
German/English 163 pages.

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