Unique by Design: Contemporary Jewelry in the Donna Schneier Collection

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Studio jewelry dissolves the up to date distinction between decorative and fine arts. The 60 pieces in this full of life 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 quite a lot of traditions in jewelry-making―from old masterworks to latest pieces―in addition to quite a lot of 20th-century art movements such as Conceptual art, Arte Povera, and Surrealism. 
 
Unique by Design draws attention to these dazzling small artworks, most of which have never before been published. Even if these pieces incorporate a lot of materials, ranging from the precious to the peculiar, they share some common traits that reflect the collector’s tastes: wit, elegance, fantasy, imagination, social remark, and technical virtuosity. Above all, these works were made to be worn and to create a dynamic engagement with a body.

 
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