Beyond Bling: Contemporary Jewelry from the Lois Boardman Collection

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Published: 16.11.2016

Beyond Bling: Contemporary Jewelry from the Lois Boardman Collection.

Rosie Mills Chambers
Bobbye Tigerman

Editor:: Jeniffer MacNair Stitt

Text by:: Helen W. Drutt English, Blake Gopnik, Benjamin Lignel, Rosie Mills Chambers, Bobbye Tigerman

Edited by:: LACMA, DelMonico Books & Prestel

Edited at:: Los Angeles

Edited on:: 2016

Technical data:: Hardcover. 224 pages. 8.75 x 10.25 x 0.87 inches. 280 color illustrations

ISBN / ISSN:: 9783791355627

Price:: from 45 €

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Table of contents

With hundreds of images and five incisive essays, the book brings this little-known collection to light. Showcasing an extraordinary assemblage of contemporary studio jewelry from the United States, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand from collector Lois Boardman.

Beyond Bling: Contemporary Jewelry from the Lois Boardman Collection showcases highlights from this important donation to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). It reveals how studio jewelers have transformed the medium by confronting social issues and exploring new technologies and unconventional materials.

Consisting of over 300 objects from the United States, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, the collection is by turns edgy, experimental, and even disturbing. Objects range from a necklace featuring a gold cast of a rodent skull to a ring made from a hand- wrought, white-gold nail, bent and thrust through a large smoky quartz. With hundreds of images and five incisive essays, the book brings this little-known collection to light.

Text in English
The catalogue was made possible by the Rotasa Foundation, Typecraft, the John and Robyn Horn Foundation, and the Decorative Arts and Design Council of LACMA.