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Daniela
Mascetti
/ Amanda
Triossi,
Earrings.
From Antiquity
to the Present,
London:
Thames &
Hudson,
1990 (paperback
ed. 1999),
223 p.
-offers an
extensive historical
survey on
the development
of earring
jewellery,
with numerous
illustrations.
Link
to Amazon
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Susan
Ray / Richard
Pearce,
The
Art &
Soul of
Glass Beads.
14 Bead
Artists
share their
Inspiration
& Methods,
Iola/WI: krause
puplications,
2003, 143
p.
-American
bead artists present
their glass
bead designs
and share
their experience in
lampworking.
Link
to Amazon
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Cindy
Jenkins,
Glasperlen.
Vom einfachen
bis zum
anspruchsvollen
Projekt,
Bern
a.o.: Haupt
Verlag,
22005,
112 p. (first
american
ed. 1997).
-demonstrates,
with detailed
pictures, methods
and techniques
on how to create
lampworked
beads.
Link
to Amazon
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Clare
Phillips,
Jewelry. From
Antiquity
to the Present,
London:
Thames &
Hudson,
1996 (paperback
ed. 2004),
224 p.
-basic
and short
survey on
the historic
development
of jewellery.
Link
to Amazon
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Earrings
in Movies and Literature
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you know
that Audrey
Hepburn sent
a very important
message
to the men's
world in
her famous
movie
Breakfast
at Tiffany's?
While sitting
before the
mirror
and
making
herself
up, she
tells her
friend from
upstairs:
"You
can always
tell what
kind of
person a
man thinks
you are
by the earrings
he gives
you."
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| Jan
Vermeer's
painting
"Girl with a pearl earring" from 1665 ist
the creative
trigger
for Tracy
Chevalier's
famous novel
about the
young maid, Griet,
who discovers
her passion
for painting
while working
in Vermeer's
house. The
novel was
put on screen
by Peter
Webber with Scarlett
Johannson
and Colin
Firth in
the leading
parts.
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