Sculpture to Wear: The Jewelry of Marjorie Schick (Contemporary Jewellery) - Hardcover

Tacey Rosolowski

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3897902583 ISBN 13: 9783897902589

Publisher: Arnoldsche, 2007

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Reading this book sends you on an imaginary trip to see Wizard of Oz while under the influence of your favorite mind-altering substance...The next best thing to buying a piece of her work is to read this lovely book, sumptuously photographed and often mounted on the brightly colored paper the artist loves. There is also an extensive catalog of her collected works, including her early metalwork, which was as exuberant as her later pieces but without the color. --Mag Guildletter, June / July 08, Vol. 25, Issue 3

Synopsis:

For decades, the American artist Marjorie Schick has been a pioneering exponent of avant-garde jewellery. Her dynamic objects, charged with energy, are rooted in the revolutionary late 1960s European conception of jewellery and transgress the conventional boundaries of form, material and colour. The artist regards the human body as 'living sculpture' and constructs works of sculpture in a wide variety of materials to extend the body. Her works are often on an excitingly grand scale: a brooch that stretches far across the wearer's shoulder to occupy the surrounding space; a neckpiece so large that it creates its own physical environment; an object that is worn on the shoulders yet envelops the entire head. Marjorie Schick's jewellery relates to 20th-century abstract art, especially Constructivism. Here, body sculpture is created that must be classified as abstract art.

About this edition

• Publisher: Arnoldsche
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 3897902583
• ISBN 13: 9783897902589
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240