ARTICLE
An Outsider's View
by Sarah Thornton
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I recently encountered a fascinating subculture, populated mostly by women who make, buy, and sell small objects in a vast range of materials that they sometimes install on their bodies."
Sarah Thornton, an ethnographer and sociologist of art, outlines six reasons why art jewelry could have an advantage over fine art, but also points out some ways the field might reposition itself in order to garner more respect.
