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Silversmiths to the Nation
Thomas Fletcher & Sidney Gardiner: 1808-1842
By Donald L. Fennimore and Ann K. Wagner
Antique Collectors’ Club
Easthampton, Massachusetts
$95
Companion to a traveling exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through May 4, this lavishly illustrated book is the first in-depth study of the silversmithing firm of Thomas Fletcher and Sidney Gardiner which, in the early years of the American republic, produced works of remarkable quality and grandeur. Founded in Boston in 1808 the outfit relocated to Philadelphia in 1811 where Fletcher (who oversaw the creative, marketing and financial aspects) and Gardiner (who had the silversmithing ...
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There's a lot to love about visiting creative people's spaces: At its best, a studio tour is a chance to meet artists, preview works in progress, even gather inspiration on décor and organization. In her new book Open Studios, Brooklyn-based designer Lotta Jansdotter grants us admission into some spaces we might never otherwise visit.
A departure from the author's usual how-to volumes, Open Studios explores 24 artist and designer ateliers in Brooklyn, Tokyo, and Jansdotter's native Stockholm. She gives us a curated selection of artists (some of them friends) who work in ceramics, jewelry, textiles, photography, graphic design, and other creative ...
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Makers: A History of American Studio CraftBy Janet Koplos and Bruce MetcalfUniversity of North Carolina PressChapel Hill, NC$65
Art critic Janet Koplos and studio jeweler Bruce Metcalf have achieved something heretofore unknown in studio craft: a single volume devoted to the history of the field, from its origins in 1850s England to the late 1990s. It is a kind of Janson's History of Art for the studio movement, illustrated with key objects from nearly every medium and period. For a field that has been without a definitive text for over a century and a ...
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by Florian Hufnagel, Maribel Königer, Ellen Maurer Zilioli and Otto Künzli
Arnoldsche Art Publishers
Stuttgart, Germany
$75
Otto Künzli is known internationally for his art or studio jewelry, or, in German, Autorenschmuck (auteur jewelry)—work loaded with meaning and a strong conceptual edge. The Swiss-born artist is perhaps equally famed as a teacher of the influential class for jewelry and hollowware he has overseen since 1991 at the Munich Academy of Art. The class, which requires that students have already trained as goldsmiths or silversmiths or completed a relevant internship, has attracted students from around the world ...
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Edited by Nicole Stuckenberger
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
University Press of New England
$24.95
The Inuit people of the Arctic will be—indeed, already are—among those most profoundly affected by climate change in the earth’s polar regions. In January 2007, with the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding and its Institute of Arctic Studies, the Hood Museum presented a comprehensive exhibition of Dartmouth College’s Arctic collections. as one of the first projects to explore the human dimensions of climate change on Inuit culture. Invaluable objects from the collection were displayed—harpoons, masks, clothing, canoes—that evocatively embody the link between the ...
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Inspired JewelryFrom the Museum of Arts and DesignBy Ursula Ilse-NeumanMuseum of Arts and Design, New York, NYACC Editions, Woodbridge, England$55antiquecollectorsclub. com
Loud Bones: The Jewelry of Nancy WordenBy Susan Noyes Platt and Michelle LeBaronTacoma Art MuseumUniversity of Washington PressSeattle, WA$40 hardcover, $24.95 paperbackwashington.edu/uwpress
Kiff Slemmons: Hands of the HeroesEssay by Mija Riedel, Poem by Bruce WhitemanPublished by Kiff Slemmons$40siennagallery.comvelvetdavinci.comcharonkransenarts.com
With artist-made contemporary jewelry now entering the collections of fine arts museums, it seems no longer ...
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Voices of Contemporary Glass: The Heineman CollectionBy Tina Oldknow, contribution by Cristine RussellThe Corning Museum of GlassCorning, New Yorkcmog.org
Hudson Hills PressManchester, Vermont$85hudsonhills.com
The Chicago philanthropist Ben W. Heineman Sr. purchased his first work of contemporary glass, a Harvey Littleton sculpture, in 1984, and was immediately hooked. For more than 20 years thereafter, Heineman and his wife, Natalie, continued to collect glass, with an emphasis on abstraction, ultimately assembling 240 objects, including Mary Shaffer’s Orange 26 MS037. The collection is a nearly complete chronology of the American studio glass movement, though ...
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