Friedrich Becker Kinetic Jewellery
by Becker, FriedrichFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2007-01-25
Publisher(s): Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt
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Summary
Movement came to be the main theme of Friedrich Becker's artistic work. In the early 1960s, he began to create the first kinetic jewellery objects that remain constantly in motion due to natural body movements. Becker is the inventor of kinetic jewellery. The ideas behind his small sculptures, having the intention of a constructivist language of forms, are also translated into his large-scale sculptures. This documentation is the first survey of the many-sided oeuvre of this significant artist: all areas of his work are represented from the 1950s to his unexpected death in May 1997. Text in English and German
Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. 9 |
| Excerpts from letters written on the death of Friedrich Beckers | p. 10 |
| Not everyone's jewellery - the goldsmith Friedrich Becker | p. 14 |
| Illustrations: jewellery | |
| Cabochon stones | p. 38 |
| Spring-clipped stones | p. 40 |
| Ring sculptures | p. 54 |
| Variable jewellery: "On the path to kinetics" | p. 58 |
| Illustrations: variable jewellery | p. 68 |
| Kinetic jewellery | p. 88 |
| Illustrations: kinetic jewellery | p. 114 |
| The finger rings of Friedrich Becker: Towards a new vision | p. 152 |
| Illustrations jewellery | |
| Gold wire | p. 168 |
| Two-point setting | p. 172 |
| Jewellery with precious stones | p. 175 |
| Only gold jewellery | p. 184 |
| Jewellery in stainless steel | p. 194 |
| Silver plate | p. 222 |
| Kinetic objects | p. 238 |
| Illustrations: kinetic objects | p. 254 |
| Biography | p. 286 |
| Bibliography | p. 298 |
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