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	JEWELRY: Modernist Jewelry 1930-1960 This beautifully written new book explores the work of 175 of the most important American modernist artist jewelers through a comprehensive text and over 540 color and 35 black and white photos. Beginning with the streamlining of Art Moderne, modernist jewelers mirrored the consciousness of their age. They were free thinkers-artists who broke away from the mainstream of jewelry design and looked to the fine arts for inspiration; they were Surrealists, Cubists, and Abstract Expressionists functioning as sculptors in small scale, painters in enamels, and architects in miniature. The modernist metalsmiths of the 1930s through 1960s laid the groundwork for the enormous expansion of metalsmithing in the 1970s and '80s. These creative jewelers produced personal designs as they absorbed the changes happening in the world around them. The artists' stories and jewelry are arranged chronologically and linked to four pivotal exhibitions held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, in 1946; the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, in 1948 and 1955; and an exhibition on paper in 1959. Together, the artists at these important events comprise the modernist movement of wearable art directly and through their influence on the subsequent generations. This important book will stand as the primary reference to art jewelry of the mid-20th century and be consulted by all who want to understand the innovations it embraces.ISBN: 0764320203 Size: 8 1/2" x 11" Illustrations: 540 color and 35 B/W photos Pages: 292 Availability: Now Available Binding: Hard Cover     $69.50
	GLASS: LALIQUE - A COLLECTOR'S GUIDE BY CHRISTOPHER VANE PERCY A fine and tight copy in a near fine and tight dustjacket/brodart covered, Dustjacket has no tears or chips. 33 color and 139 black-and-white illustrations. Of unique interest to collectors will be the comprehensive list of all the 1,562 objects listed in Lalique's massive trade catalogue of 1932. Each item is identified by its design number, some are dated for the first time.Lavishly illustrated with 33 color and 139 black-and-white photographs, this comprehensive book is an in-depth survey on collecting French Lalique art glass. Here the "author traces the artist's entire career, both as a designer and as manufacturer. He describes Lalique's production techniques, relating them to the many hundreds of glass objects for which they were specially devised." LALIQUE - A COLLECTOR'S GUIDE by Christopher Vane Percy, Crescent Books, NY, 1977/1989. This scholarly text reviews by chapter: Introduction; The Man and His Glass; For the Collector; Vases and Bowls; Tableware; Car Mascots and Paper-weights; Scent Bottles and Garnitures de Toilette; Illuminated Glass and Light Fittings; Glass In Architecture; Small Objects: Statuettes, Ink-wells and Blotters, Clocks, Mirrors, Glass Jewelry, Boxes, and Sweet Dishes; Cire Perdue; Techniques; Trademarks; Design Numbers; Category Index; Glossary; List of Illustrations; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; and Index. "Of unique interest will be the comprehensive list of all the 1,562 objects listed in Lalique's massive trade catalogue of 1932. Each item is identified by its design number, some are dated for the first time, and many are described in sufficient detail to enable the collector to identify them by eye as well as by number." This is an invaluable text, which belongs in the permanent reference library of the collector, dealer, or historian of art glass. 9" x 12" hardback with dust cover in very good+ condition. 192 pages.     $55.00

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