Ethnological Research, No. 18/19, 2014.
Review article
The toy in jewellery – The toy as jewellery
Ivanka Ivkanec
Abstract
The World of Toys project authored by Iris Biškupić Bašić, Ph.D. included a series of thematic lectures related to specific segments in the displayed exhibitions and/or items on sale in the souvenir shop of the Ethnographic Museum. It also presented a part of the current goldsmith production in Zagreb and the design of jewellery inspired by traditional toys and national folklore heritage. Selected examples of established forms and art motifs on wooden and cloth children’s toys, on gingerbread ware, and figures of favourite animals and/ or objects of everyday use are recognised in the designs of specific jewellery and/or decorative home interior objects produced by some goldsmith’s workshops and applied art designers. The national goldsmith production reflects the individual and social approach to the phenomenon of jewellery and adornment and more complex, inherited substantial-symbolic meanings. This article is a somewhat longer written comment of a verbal presentation on the same topic held at the Ethnographic Museum in Zagreb in May 2013.
Keywords
toys; jewellery; the toy as jewellery
Hrčak ID:
133472
URI
Publication date:
29.12.2014.
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