AUSGEZEICHNET! MOST EXCELLENT!
Jewellery _ Art for Heroes
200 pp.
25 x 20 cm, 191 colour ills. Hardcover.
English / German
€ 39,80 incl. VAT
Description
Questions regarding the modern culture of distinction, current images of heroes, and with this associated forms in labelling exceptional personalities are the focus of the current documentation surrounding ausgezeichnet! most excellent! A top-class board of trustees selected eye-catching, often surprising approaches of renowned artists and students jewellery, objects and other forms of decoration for real or fictional heroes that impressively exemplify the diversity of artistic reflection and its sociopolitical relevance. The statements presented are complemented by essays from renowned authors, reflecting historical, social and cultural contexts.
ausgezeichnet! most excellent! is a joint project of the Chemnitzer Künstlerbund e.V., the Militärhistorisches Museum der Bundeswehr in Dresden and the Institute for European Studies of the Technische Universität Chemnitz.
Jury: Dr Christianne Weber-Stöber, Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus Hanau (DE), Dr Gorch Pieken, Militärhistorisches Museum der Bundeswehr, Dresden (DE), Prof. Ulrike Brummert, docteur dEtat, Romanische Kulturwissenschaft, TU Chemnitz (DE), Paul Derrez, Galerie ra, Amsterdam (NL), Sabine Epple, GRASSI Museum of Applied Arts Leipzig (DE), Prof. Deganit Stern Schocken, Shenkar College Engineering. Design. Art. Ramat Gan (IL).
With essays by Christianne Weber-Stöber, Ulrike Brummert, Monika Brugger, Christina Posselt-Kuhli, Günter Kunert and Iris Fishof.
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