Unique by Design: Contemporary Jewelry in the Donna Schneier Collection

by Suzanne Ramljak

Studio jewelry dissolves the modern distinction between decorative and fine arts. The 60 pieces in this lively volume, collected by Donna Schneier and donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, were created primarily from the early 1960s to the present day and show a fluid engagement with various traditions in jewelry-making--from old masterworks to contemporary pieces--as well as various 20th-century art movements such as Conceptual art, Arte Povera,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300208766
• ISBN13: 9780300208764
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 9.5" x 9.0"