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Material Landscapes of Scotlands Jewellery Craft, 1780-1914 [Hardback]

(National Museums Scotland, UK)
  • Formāts: Hardback, 272 pages, height x width x depth: 230x152x22 mm, weight: 680 g, 48 colour and 20 bw illus
  • Sērija : Material Culture of Art and Design
  • Izdošanas datums: 27-Jul-2023
  • Izdevniecība: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
  • ISBN-10: 1501358006
  • ISBN-13: 9781501358005
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  • Formāts: Hardback, 272 pages, height x width x depth: 230x152x22 mm, weight: 680 g, 48 colour and 20 bw illus
  • Sērija : Material Culture of Art and Design
  • Izdošanas datums: 27-Jul-2023
  • Izdevniecība: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
  • ISBN-10: 1501358006
  • ISBN-13: 9781501358005
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"Jewellery is used to adorn the human body, to mark wealth and status, and to build and mark personal and emotional ties between individuals. The role of goldsmiths and jewellers in manipulating materials to fuse symbolic and monetary value in precious and deeply meaningful objects has seen their skill command a high level of respect across time and place. Yet the making of jewellery during the modern era has received very little scholarly attention. The Material Landscapes of Scotland's Jewellery Craft 1780-1914 challenges the tired but persistent notion that industrialization, by replacing the human hand with the machine, destroyed skilled craftsmanship by exploring the neglected but rich area of Scotland's jewellery craft during the long 19th century.It demonstrates that industrialization was, in fact, the driving force behind a deeper engagement with hand skill and nature that is more closely associated with goldsmiths of the early modern period. The book explores the material, visual and symbolic dimensions to jewellery through a craft-based reading that considers these sources by fusing social and cultural history methods with approaches drawn from art, design and dress history. The making and wearing of jewellery are considered as embodied cultural practices throughout, forging a new methodological approach that can be applied more widely to the study of material things. By placing producers and their skill in cultural context, the book reveals how attending to the materiality of even the smallest of objects can offer new and multifaceted insights into the wider transformations that marked British history during the long 19th century. With its focus on the relationship between materials, making processes, and the social and cultural meanings of things the book offers a novel approach to the history of material culture"--

During the long 19th century, Scotland was home to an established body of skilled jewellers who were able to access a range of materials from the country's varied natural landscape: precious gold and silver; sparkling crystals and colourful stones; freshwater pearls, shells and parts of rare animals. Following these materials on their journey from hill and shore, across the jeweller's bench and on to the bodies of wearers, this book challenges the persistent notion that the forces of industrialisation led to the decline of craft. It instead reveals a vivid picture of skilled producers who were driving new and revived areas of hand skill, and who were key to fostering a focused cultural engagement with the natural world – among both producers and consumers – through the things they made. By placing producers and their skill in cultural context, the book reveals how examining the materiality of even the smallest of objects can offer new and multifaceted insights into the wider transformations that marked British history during the long 19th century.

The Material Landscapes of Scotland's Jewellery Craft 1780-1914 brings together a vast array of jewellery objects with a range of other sources – including paintings, engravings, newspaper reports, letters, inventories of big houses and small workshops, sketchbooks, novels, works of literary geology and early travel writings – to provide a detailed cultural history of jewellery production. In doing so, it sets out innovative methodologies for writing about the histories of craft production, the natural environment and the material world.

Recenzijas

With its well-researched narrative, evocative imagery, and critical analysis of material culture, The Material Landscapes of Scotlands Jewellery Craft is an engaging read for those interested in the intersections of craft, history, and identity as it pertains to Scottish traditions and beyond. * Scotia: Interdisciplinary Journal of Scottish Studies * This book is a highly original account full of new information from contemporary letters, newspapers, novels, and paintings. It is essential for anyone interested in jewellery and wearable ornaments or in Scotlands cultural history ... This compellingly written and well-illustrated book is one you will return to repeatedly and is unquestionably worth the outlay. * The Decorative Arts Society Newsletter * This extensively researched and beautifully illustrated book makes an important contribution to material culture studies. It puts the jewellery makers and their materials at the centre of the discussion, around which flow the currents of cultural, intellectual, aesthetic and economic aspects of their craft. The result is a brilliantly effective interdisciplinary account of making and meaning in Scottish jewellery practice in the long 19th century. * Dr. Simon Bliss, author of Jewellery in the Age of Modernism 1918-1940 (2021) * This is a wonderful book which will become the standard work on Scotlands jewellery craft for many years to come. Thorough and meticulous research is blended with eloquent prose and an array of splendid images to enchanting effect. * Professor Emeritus Sir Tom Devine, University of Edinburgh, UK * From Cairngorm pebbles and Perthshire pearls to Edinburgh goldsmiths and the craftswomen of Inverness, Laurenson shows us the places and people of Scotland in vivid and innovative ways that will inspire all readers to see the past afresh. * David Gange, author of The Frayed Atlantic Edge (2021), joint winner of the Highland Book Prize, and Associate Professor of History, the University of Birmingham, UK * Essential reading for all who seek to understand the role of jewellery, and why it matters, in a period of huge social change. Bristling with new research, this engaging and highly original account takes cultural history deep into Scotland and far beyond. * Judy Rudoe, Curator, 1800 to the present, British Museum, UK * This book is a highly original account full of new information from contemporary letters, newspapers, novels, and paintings. It is essential for anyone interested in jewellery and wearable ornaments or in Scotlands cultural history As a keen mountain lover, she brings a palpable love of the materials that makes the book a joy to read ...This compellingly written and well-illustrated book is one you will return to repeatedly and is unquestionably worth the outlay. -- Journal of the Decorative Arts Society * Judy Rudoe, British Museum Curator *

Papildus informācija

This volume explores questions of materiality and the shifting meanings of skill and workmanship through Scotlands jewellery craft in the long nineteenth century.

Introduction: Revealing Craft: Fusing Nature and Culture

Chapter 1: Making Things: In the Jewellery Workshop

Chapter 2: New-Old Objects: Deconstructing and Reconstructing the Past

Chapter 3: Metals: Landscape and Memory in Gold and Silver

Chapter 4: Minerals: Crafting Colour Worlds in Stone

Chapter 5: (Un)Living Things: Material Afterlives in Pearls, Shells and Taxidermy

Bibliography
Index

Sarah Laurenson is Principal Curator of Modern and Contemporary History at National Museums Scotland, UK.