500 Enameled Objects: A Celebration of Color on Metal (500 Series) Paperback – April 7, 2009

Fascinating overview of the current posibilities of enameling as an independent art form.The pictures are of a good quality; the exposure of the objects is decisive !But the information given is not abundant and frequently inadequate.The technical information about processing the object is not balanced: When Kate Bauman [317] states that her work is burned in the oven (kiln fired) "and rendered" ("molten") - which refers to the enamel that has been molten in the oven ..... this counts for all enameling work ! - That the enamel is prepared, either in the oven, or torch fired ... Which is another procedure mentioned , and different techniques give a variety of options. Some jewelry is pictured worn which provides important additional information, such as the ring of Demitra Thomloudis [154]

This is another great book in the 500 series. I have collected all the books representing the jewelry field. As a collector of the jewelry arts I am distressed that so much of the work in this book lacks beauty. It would seem as if there is a group of artist/enamellists that find ugly to be the new in thing.Do not get me wrong there are many beautiful works of art in this book but the thing I noticed the most was the lack of beauty in so much of the work. The right of each and every artist to make the decision to create what ever they want is true and valid. And while there may be a market for much of the work I hope this is just a stage society is going through that these artists are reflecting.I do like having this book because it does reflect the authors' selection of contemporary enamel work. But my first thought after looking at all the work was, there is a lot of work that I find unattractive. I would not, for the majority of the work, buy them for myself. Since beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I am stating this as a personal observation and I am glad this book is in my library. I do recommend purchasing this book as an overview of current enamel work.

I would say that the overall quality of workmanship and concepts of the 500 enameled objects shown is not as high as that in some of the other Lark books. There are some very fine and interesting pieces, but a lot of clunkers, too. And there are a number of excellent jewelers who used enamel at the time this book was written but are missing from this book. The book is pretty heavily weighted towards North American artists. Objects with representational or referential motifs, and symbolic or sentimental content outnumber abstract pieces, which may be a function of where enameling was in 2007, the editor's choices, or both.

This is like a little enamel art museum in a book. Some of the pieces are stunning and show amazing artistry. I thumb thru this for inspiration.

A great resource for jewelry makers and those interested in enameled objects. The photography is great as it show cases the pieces very well.

i am an amateur enameler. this book is a great inspirtion. beautiful pics of beautiful objets.

My wife and I jewelers by trade and she does a lot of enamelling. We have many of the Lark jewelry books and find them inspirational. I did not hesitate to buy this one sight unseen.NEVER AGAIN!Should have been called "10 Great Enamels, 10 OK ones, and 6 that weren't bad, followed by 474 pictures of absolute trash."Worst Lark book printed in this "500" series. I really question the dubious taste and experience of the person that put this book together. If they had no choice but to publish these pieces because that is all the photos they received, the book should never have been published.Please don't waste your money on this book, just go buy something else in this series. Don't buy this book because you think,"I should give it a chance, no matter what the reviewers say." I looked through it, my wife looked through it and we debated whether or not to just toss it in the trash afterwards, because we will never look at it again. It just made us sad to think that this is the state of modern enamelling.After reading the three 5-star reviews, I'd say neither of the first two actually looked at this book or know anything about jewelry and apparently the other person rated it incorrectly. It's a shame that those reviews are the ones you see posted first.

nice addition to my library

500 photographs of work from different artists - great for inspiration

excellent

Frankly, the publisher seems to have rushed this to press, many of the items could have been better selected, but a good reference book, if not somewhat randomly put together.

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