LithoMania

Name: LithoMania
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SKU: 9783897906600
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LithoMania showcases the innovative work of the Department of Gemstones and Jewellery at the Trier University of Applied Arts/Campus Idar-Oberstein. It presents students' artistic exploration of precious stones, focusing on ethical mining concerns and modern reinterpretations of these traditional materials. Themes such as ecology, consumption, value, identity, and time are thoughtfully considered and woven into the creative process.

The title reflects both a fascination with the stones' captivating beauty and an obsession with the craft of working them. The book features poetic contributions, experimental photographs, object documentation, workshop views, and images of jewelry being worn, highlighting new artistic freedoms and approaches.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in contemporary art and design, ethical craftsmanship, gemstone jewellery, and the intersection of tradition and modernity in artistic expression.

In LithoMania, part of the Design Lab exhibition series at the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Berlin, students from the Idar-Oberstein campus of the Trier University of Applied Sciences explore the complex ambivalence of gemstones in objects, drawings, photographs, and texts. Text in English and German.

Description

In LithoMania, the Department of Gemstones and Jewellery at the Trier University of Applied Arts/Campus Idar-Oberstein explores new perspectives in the artistic engagement with precious stones.

Here the students address ethical issues regarding the mining of materials and develop approaches that place the highly traditional stones in a modern context.

The ambivalence of themes such as ecology, consumption, value, identity, and time are debated and then integrated into the creative process. The lithomania of the title is expressed not only in the fascination with the luminous and colourful appearance of the precious stones but also in the obsession with how they are worked.

The students' poetic contributions restore a lightness to the material, with which new inroads and a freedom in artistic expression become possible. The associative processes are presented in photos of experiments, documentation of objects, views of the workshops, and photographs of the jewellery being worn.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783897906600

Publisher: Arnoldsche

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 22 April 2022

Country: Germany

Imprint: Arnoldsche

Illustration: 103 Illustrations, color

Contributors:

Edited by Claudia Banz
Edited by Ute Eitzenhöfer

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 160.0mm

Height: 240.0mm

Weight: 618g

Pages: 272

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

Claudia Banz is art historian and curator for design at the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin. Ute Eitzenhöfer trained as a goldsmith and then studied jewellery at Hochschule Pforzheim. She teaches at Trier University of Applied Sciences in Idar-Oberstein.