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16 Sep 2015 / 0 Comment

Bent, Cast & Forged: The Jewelry Of Harry Bertoia At Cranbrook Art Museum

Published: September 16, 2015

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BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICH. — The phrase “Modernist design” typically evokes images of machines, mass production and manufactured materials. Its relationship with nature was often contested, if not downright hostile. Yet within the movement, biomorphism ran strong and the artist Harry Bertoia (1915–1978) numbered among the Modernists fascinated by its conceptual and aesthetic implications. He embraced the science of biology — especially the world of amoebae, phytoplankton and other tiny and not particularly charismatic organisms — as an artistic stimulant. Nowhere was this more pronounced than in his jewelry.



   

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