When Jewellery Becomes Art - Paola Stroppiana

From Lucio Fontana to Ada Minola, from Salvador Dal� to Man Ray, from Gio' Pomodoro to Giovanni Corvaja, the volume presents an anthology of internationally renowned artists who have engaged with the theme of the artist's jewellery: 32 portraits originally published in the Maestri orafi column of the Corriere della Sera. Between memories and encounters, art and enterprise, the jewel emerges as an intellectual and identity-bearing language, capable of illuminating private experiences and public works of art, places and people in their daily and symbolic dimensions, offering the reader an original perspective on 20th-century goldsmithing creativity, autonomous and fully accomplished work of art. Artists: Ada Minola, Piero Gilardi, Bruno Martinazzi, Mario Giansone, Umberto Mastroianni, Enrico Cirio | Fausto Melotti, Gio' Pomodoro, Nino Franchina, Man Ray, Lucio Fontana, Max Ernst, Louise Nevelson, Niki de Saint Phalle, Salvador Dal�, Elsa Schiaparelli, Arnaldo Pomodoro | Tania Pistone, Jessica Carroll, Giulio Paolini, Ugo Nespolo Giorgio Vigna, Giovanni Corvaja, Grazia Varisco, Cleto Munari, Giuseppe Penone, Matteo Bonafede | Mattioli, Palmerio, Tataborello, Lorenzo e Paola Monticone Musy. Text in English and Italian.�