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050 00 $aNK4890.E86$bB67 1994
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100 1 $aBorel, France.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88675451
245 14 $aThe splendor of ethnic jewelry :$bfrom the Colette and Jean-Pierre Ghysels Collection /$ctext by France Borel ; photographs by John Bigelow Taylor ; captions by Colette Ghysels ; translated from the French by I. Mark Paris.
260 $aNew York :$bH.N. Abrams,$c1994.
263 $a9409
300 $a256 pages :$billustrations ;$c29 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aOver the long course of human history, jewelry and other kinds of body adornment have expressed a multitude of meanings in people's lives - social position, marital status, individual wealth, self-esteem. All these things and more are revealed in the objects that men and women use and wear on and around their bodies. And those who can perceive and understand the subtle meanings of these richly elaborated, finely crafted, and beautiful things are the richer for it.
520 8 $aAmong the world's finest private collections of ethnic jewelry is that of Colette and Jean-Pierre Ghysels. Formed over the course of more than thirty years of dedicated world travel, conscientious trekking, and trading, the Ghysels' collection has, until now, not been available for viewing except to the couple's friends and selected scholars. Never exhibited extensively, never published in any comprehensive way, the collection has remained carefully protected in Brussels.
520 8 $aPublished here for the first time, the Ghysels Collection comes to light in brilliant photographs - made especially for this book - by John Bigelow Taylor and accompanied by a thoughtful and wide-ranging introductory text by a Belgian scholar, the art historian France Borel.
520 8 $aAmong the four hundred stunning color reproductions from the collection are pieces from every corner of the globe - Africa, the Middle East, the mountain kingdoms of Asia, India, the golden triangle, Indonesia and Malaysia, the Philippines, China and Japan, Oceania, and the Americas. The materials of which they are made cover an enormously wide array: gold, silver, brass, bronze, and iron; precious and semiprecious gems such as carnelian, turquoise, and amber; animal fur, bones, teeth, and feathers; shell, ivory, wood, leather, stone, glass, seeds, plant fibers, and clay.
520 8 $aThe range of sizes, forms, and craft techniques is equally amazing.
520 8 $aIn her lucid and readable overall survey of the subject and in geographical section introductions, France Borel leads the reader into the rich subtext of ethnic jewelry, establishing the varied and complex reasons for its creation and the many meanings behind its use. She guides the reader to fresh understandings of body decoration and the significance of personal adornment among tribal peoples and other coherent cultural groups around the world.
520 8 $aColette Ghysels herself provides detailed captions for all the illustrations, identifying materials and craft methods, giving tribal names and uses for the objects, and offering a more sophisticated appreciation not only of the value, rarity, and significance, but of the beauty of each work.
520 8 $aThis exquisite book will find many devoted readers not only among jewelry and fashion professionals and amateur anthropologists, but among all who love handmade objects of aesthetic delight and profound cultural significance.
650 0 $aEthnic jewelry$xPrivate collections$zBelgium$zBrussels$vCatalogs.
600 10 $aGhysels, Colette$xArt collections$vCatalogs.
600 10 $aGhysels, Jean-Pierre$xArt collections$vCatalogs.
700 1 $aTaylor, John Bigelow.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88163617
700 1 $aGhysels, Colette.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94016850
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