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Sam Kramer
Jeweler on the Edge
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This book will appeal to readers interested in modern arts and culture, jewellery design enthusiasts, and those fascinated by the Beat Generation and avant-garde artistic movements.
Toni Greenbaum wittingly traces the life and work of Sam Kramer, one of the most eccentric American jewelleryartists of the modern age. Presented in English.
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Toni Greenbaum wittingly traces the life and work of Sam Kramer, one of the most eccentric American jewellery artists of the modern age. Presented in English.
Kramer's strongly expressive, organic work and surreal workshops in New York's Greenwich Village paved the way for key mid-twentieth-century metalsmiths—and for many more working today. From the unique handling of his favoured material, silver, to curiosities such as the attempt to make jewellery from his wife's gallstones, or the purchase of 16,000 glass eyes from a taxidermist.
The expressive genius of the artist can be found both in his brooches and necklaces and in his avant-garde publicity stunts. A figure of contemporary history, Sam Kramer reflects the existential angst and the quirky humour of the Beat Generation and continues to embody the iconoclastic spirit of his time.
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"With a handsome design that combines bold graphics and typefaces and suits its audacious subject, vintage photos that bring Kramer and his world to life, and high quality jewellery images from Arnoldsche, the book is the perfect size to curl up with—and to conjure your own surrealistic dreams." – Toni Greenbaum, The Magazine Antiques
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ISBN: 9783897905641
Publisher: Arnoldsche
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 17 January 2020
Country: Germany
Imprint: Arnoldsche
Illustration: 120 Illustrations, color
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 175.0mm
Height: 245.0mm
Weight: 670g
Pages: 160
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About the Author
Toni Greenbaum is a widely respected authority of international stature on modern and contemporary jewellery. She wrote the standard text on modernist jewellery, Messengers of Modernism: American Studio Jewellery 1940-1960, as well as countless book chapters, exhibition catalogues and essays. Greenbaum lectures internationally and is a professor at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.
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