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The Material Landscapes of Scotland's Jewellery Craft, 1780-1914

by Sarah Laurenson
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781501358005
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 288
  • Original Price: GBP 95.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 454 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Jewelry, History / General, and Europe / Great Britain / Scotland

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.

Laurenson, Sarah: - Sarah Laurenson is Principal Curator of Modern and Contemporary History at National Museums Scotland, UK. She is responsible for the Scottish collections representing cultural, social, political, military and domestic history from c.1750 to the present. Her research focuses on the relationship between material culture, landscape and nature from the late eighteenth century to the present day.

Yonan, Michael: - Michael Yonan is Professor of Art History/Alan Templeton Endowed Chair in European Art, 1600-1830 at the University of California at Davis, USA. His research concentrates on eighteenth-century European art, particularly in Central Europe and Scandinavia; on the decorative arts, and on the theory and practice of material culture studies. With Stacey Sloboda he has co-edited Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds: Local and Global Geographies of Art for Bloomsbury Academic.

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