Barbara Cartlidge and Electrum Gallery
Subtitle: a passion for jewellery
By: Beatriz Chadour-Sampson, Janice Hosegood
Publisher: Arnoldsche Art Publishers
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Stuttgart
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9783897904705
Subjects: History; Jewelers; Biography; Artist-designed jewelry; Electrum (Gallery : London, England)
Description: The extraordinary life of Barbara Cartlidge (b. 1922 in Berlin) - influential gallerist, curator, jewellery artist and author - together with the history of her legendary Electrum Gallery, which she founded in 1971 with Ralph Turner in London, are documented for the first time in a single publication. Pioneers and colleagues as well as around seventy internationally renowned artists of the gallery all have their say and, in anecdotes and recollections, countless illustrations and hitherto unpublished images, tell of a strong and resolute woman and the significance of her gallery as a promoter and platform for the understanding of contemporary art jewellery. Particular attention is paid to the life of Barbara Cartlidge, who fled from Germany in 1938. For over fifty years she was a driving force in what she described as the 'the brotherhood of jewellers who make modern and thought-provoking jewellery all over the world'.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Barbara Cartlidge: Life and work. Berlin in the 1920s ; A liberal Jewish family ; A family in exile ; Early creativity at the Landschulheim Caputh ; Fleeing Germany ; Alone in Copenhagen ; Life as a refugee in London ; An unusual love afair ; Making a living ; A political conscience ; A jeweller emerges ; Electrum Gallery ; Epilogue: the Cartlidge family; title: Barbara Cartlidge and Electrum Gallery. Recollections of Barbara Cartlidge and Electrum Gallery ; Exhibitions at Electrum Gallery 1971-2007.