Ornament as Art: Avant-Garde Jewelry from the Helen Williams Drutt Collection

It is divided into four parts. The biographies and extensive bibliography that follow are also a great resource. Part 1 contains essays by Helen Williams Drutt English and Cindi Strauss, curator of contemporary applied arts and design at the MFA Houston: on developments in jewellery 1960-2006; on Drutt's `experiences and relationships of the past forty years'; and on minimalist and conceptual tendencies within the collection. Its global view makes fascinating reading and allows national parallels and tangents to be readily appreciated. --Findings, Issue 43, March 2008 . The well-writte

"Superb" according to Dorothea C.. A superb compendium covering most of the important art jewelry artists of the 20th century. Most artists get three to 10 large photos plus more small photos of their work. Includes relevent sketch book pages from some artists. Yes, there's a great deal of text, too, in this hefty tome, but no where else have I seen such complete and coverage of this branch of art this the only professional level catalog raissonée of what is surely the most important and largest collection of "avant garde" jewelry in th. Nicley done catalog A well-made book which does a good job of overviewing the careers of various art jewelers of the 20th century. This is Helen's collection and she had personal experiences with many (if not all) of the artists presented. This is an invaluable bit of history and contains many beautiful photographs.The back of the book contains small, thumbnail-sized views of other works made by the artists. These images are quite small and difficult to see. The text is a large portion of the book and I would have liked to have

A catalogue of the contemporary jewellery to be found in the Helen Drutt Williams collection in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.