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Author Strauss, Cindi.

Title Ornament as art : avant-garde jewelry from the Helen Williams Drutt collection, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston / Cindi Strauss ; with an essay by Helen Williams Drutt English and contributions by Keelin M. Burrows, Kristen Wetzel.

Imprint Stuttgart, Germany : Arnoldsche Art Publishers in association with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2007.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Kansas Collection M Schick  739.270904 St82o 2007    ---  Lib Use Only
Description 528 pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm
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Note "Exhibition Itinerary: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, September 30, 2007-January 21, 2008; Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., March 14-July 6, 2008; Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, NC, August 16, 2008-January 4, 2009; Tacoma Museum of Art, Tacoma, WA, June 27-September 13, 2009"--Title page verso.
Includes several works by Marjorie Schick.
Summary "Presents 800 jewelry objects and drawings from 1960 through 2006 by more than 170 international jewelry artists in the Helen Williams Drutt Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Includes essays about Minimalist and Conceptual influences and the history behind the collection, a chronology, and artist biographies"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 512-524) and index.
Contents A brief history of contemporary jewelry, 1960-2006 / by Cindi Strauss -- A golden age of goldsmithing: four decades / by Helen Williams Drutt English -- Minimalist and conceptual tendencies in the Helen Williams Drutt collection / by Cindi Strauss -- Q & A with Helen Williams Drutt English / conducted by Cindi Strauss.
Subject Jewelry -- History -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
Jewelry -- Private collections -- Texas -- Houston -- Exhibitions.
Drutt, Helen Williams -- Art collections -- Exhibitions.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Added Author Drutt, Helen Williams.
Schick, Marjorie, 1941-
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Renwick Gallery.
Mint Museum of Craft + Design.
ISBN 9783897902732 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
3897902737 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

 
    
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