Barbara Cartlidge and Electrum Gallery
A Passion for Jewellery
- Tracing the history of Electrum Gallery, a pre-eminent platform devoted to art jewellery and a major creative force for the understanding of new work
- The book looks also at the extraordinary life of Barbara Cartlidge - artist, gallery director, curator and author - a prime mover in the field of art jewellery for nearly fifty years
- The story is told through the words and images of 70 internationally renowned artist jewellers; including previously unpublished historical photographs
The extraordinary life of Barbara Cartlidge (b. 1922 in Berlin) – influential gallerist, curator, jewellery artist and author – together with the history of her legendary Electrum Gallery, which she founded in 1971 with Ralph Turner in London, are documented for the first time in a single publication. Pioneers and colleagues as well as around seventy internationally renowned artists of the gallery all have their say and, in anecdotes and recollections, countless illustrations and hitherto unpublished images, tell of a strong and resolute woman and the significance of her gallery as a promoter and platform for the understanding of contemporary art jewellery. Particular attention is paid to the life of Barbara Cartlidge, who fled from Germany in 1938. For over fifty years she was a driving force in what she described as the ‘the brotherhood of jewellers who make modern and thought-provoking jewellery all over the world’.
- Publisher
- Arnoldsche Art Publishers
- ISBN
- 9783897904705
- Published
- 7th Oct 2016
- Binding
- Hardback
- Territory
- UK, US, Eastern Europe, France, Benelux, Japan, South Korea, Africa, South America & Ireland exclusive. South Africa, N&M East, China non-exclusive
- Size
- 295 mm x 225 mm
- Pages
- 280 Pages
- Illustrations
- 219 color, 4 b&w
Distributed by ACC Art Books
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