Word: silver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exquisite as an artfully crafted bauble. A growing number of jewelry designers here and in Europe are creating a New Jewelry that depends on purity of line, elegance of form, grace of motion to make its uncluttered point. Using materials less rare and less intrinsically valuable than gems-silver, bone, ivory and wood-their work is stark, simple and sculptural. Encrustation is gone; design, once more, is everything...
...River Gallery. "It has drawn in a lot of people who like its quiet, demanding skills, enjoy the tactile qualities of the metals." In lieu of gems, some of the artists, such as American Ellen Levy and Chinese Designer Susan Sung, use different-colored metals such as silver and gold, or varied textures, to free their work from monotony. For them, as Marshall McLuhan might have put it, the material itself is the message...
...word, renaissance, for the New Jewelers are indeed going back to jewelry's birth, rediscovering and freely adapting ancient and traditional patterns, with a sense of excitement much like the Cubists' on their first encounter with primitive art. Traditional Oriental pieces, such as a high one-piece silver collar from Thailand that gives the illusion of being five separate circular necklaces heaped one atop the other, go perfectly with the elegantly simple lines of contemporary high-fashion clothing. So do the intricately crafted silver and turquoise belts and vertebrae-like necklaces hammered out by Indian metalworkers...
Senior Floyd Lewis and sophomore Lou Silver, who are averaging 15.0 and 12.5 points respectively, are without question the two best reserve big men in the area and are capable of moving into the starting lineup at any time...
According to Mitchell the Terriers are completely healthy and ready to go Harvard's Eric Fox and Wolfe are recouperating from the flu, but the only serious problem for Harrison may be chronic back pains suffered by Silver. The injury often keeps the sophomore from working at 100 per cent...