| | Jewelry The Body Transformed by Melanie Holcomb, Joanne Pillsbury, Kim Benzel, Soyoung Lee, Diana Craig Patch, Beth Carver Wees, James A. Doyle, Moira Gallagher, John Guy, Navina Najat Haidar, Hannah Korn, Maia Nuku, Courtney A. Stewart Hardcover, 280 Pages, Published 2018 by Metropolitan Museum Of Art ISBN-13: 978-1-58839-650-1, ISBN: 1-58839-650-9
"A cross-cultural examination of jewelry spanning 5,000 years that investigates not only the objects themselves but also the bodies they decorated 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. But how is the meaning of jewelry bound to the body that wears it? Establishing six different m ..."
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