Gijs Bakker and Jewelry Werkverzeichnis Schmuck

Name: Gijs Bakker and Jewelry Werkverzeichnis Schmuck
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ISBN: 9783897902237

ISBN-10: 3897902230

ISBN-13: 9783897902237

Edition: 2005

Authors: Ted Alkins, Ida Van Zijl, Yvï¿½nne Joris, Yvònne Joris

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Dutch jewellery and product designer Gijs Bakker (b. 1942) has been a prominent figure in international jewellery for over forty years. He has been setting trends in both form and design since the 1960s. Bakker and his wife Emmy van Leersum are credited with the supreme achievement of having elevated jewellery to a cutting-edge art form in its own right, and sparking off the development of avant-garde art jewellery in Europe and the U.S. This book is the long awaited complete works of Gijs Bakker's jewellery in a catalogue raisonn,. Knowledgeable and entertaining essays by the art historian Ida van Zijl, and beautiful colour illustrations in large formats trace developments over nearly…

Book details

List price: $85.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Arnoldsche Art Publishers
Publication date: 1/25/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 9.00" wide x 11.00" long x 1.12" tall
Weight: 3.234
Language: English




Background and training



The liberating form : work from the period 1963-1973



'The medium is the message' : work from the period 1976-1983



Gijs+Emmy



Reconciliation and virtuosity : work from 1985 to the present



'I think, act and live through may jewelry' : the significance of jewelry in Bakker's work



'They are artists, not designers ...' : the international significance of Bakker's jewelry