Contemporary Jewellery in Portugal: From the Avant-Garde of the 1960s to the Early 21st Century

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With Contemporary Jewellery in Portugal Cristina Filipe presents a comprehensive examination of the history of Portuguese studio jewellery from the dawn of the avant-garde in the 1960s through to the contemporary trends of the early twenty-first century.

Filipe sheds light on societal upheavals as well as on the actors who helped to transform jewellery design in Portugal. For here, too and even under the pressure and restrictions of the Estado Novo dictatorship under Antnio de Oliveira Salazar (1930s through to the so-called Carnation Revolution of 1974) artists reacted to international influences and developed their specific responses to them.

Courtesy of numerous interviews with protagonists from the different generations, the author has accomplished a detailed record of developments and trends in contemporary jewellery in Portugal.

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Cristina Filipe (b. 1965) is an artist and researcher with a PhD in Art and Heritage from the Universidade Catolica Portuguesa in Porto. This book reflects the result of her doctoral research and is published after she was awarded a Susan Beech Grant by Art Jewelry Forum in 2017.