John Guy

Melanie Holcomb

Joanne Pillsbury

Soyoung Lee

Beth Carver Wees

Navina Najat Haidar

Moira Gallagher

James A. Doyle

Maia Nuku

Diana Craig Patch

Kim Benzel

Courtney A. Stewart

Hannah Korn

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Verdana} As an art form, jewelry is defined primarily through its connection to and interaction with the body—extending it, amplifying it, accentuating it, distorting it, concealing it, or transforming it. Addressing six different modes of the body—Adorned, Divine, Regal, Transcendent, Alluring, and Resplendent—this artfully designed catalogue illustrates how these various definitions of the body give meaning to the jewelry that adorns and enhances it. Essays on topics spanning a wide range of times and cultures establish how jewelry was used as a symbol of power, status, and identity, from earflares of warrior heroes in Pre-Colombian Peru to bowknot earrings designed by Yves Saint-Laurent. These most intimate works of art provide insight into the wearers, but also into the cultures that produced them. More than 200 jewels and ornaments, alongside paintings and sculptures of bejeweled bodies, demonstrate the social, political, and aesthetic role of jewelry from ancient times to the present. Gorgeous new illustrations of Bronze Age spirals, Egyptian broad collars, Hellenistic gold armbands, Japanese courtesan hair adornments, jewels from Mughal India, and many, many more explore the various facets of jewelry and its relationship to the human body over 5,000 years of world history.

The Body Transformed

Jewelry

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Catharine H. Roehrig

Marianne Eaton-Krauss

Susan J. Allen

Renée F. Friedman

Ann Macy Roth

David P. Silverman

Emilia Cortes

Anna Serotta

"This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition 'The Dawn of Egyptian Art' on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York from April 10 to August 5, 2012"--T.p. verso.

Dawn of Egyptian Art

Diana Craig Patch

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