American Glass : Masters of the Art

by Herman, Lloyd E.

• ISBN13: 9780295977560
• ISBN10: 0295977566
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-03-01
• Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr

Summary

Glass is one of the world's oldest materials for art and, in America, one of the newest. In the United States in the last 30 years, glass has emerged as a vital component of America's visual arts. Glass, basically sand melted to a liquid with the consistency of honey, can be blown into fragile bubbles, cast into sculptural architectural components, fused, painted, carved, and engraved, to name only a few techniques in the glass artist's vocabulary. This survey includes recent examples of art in glass by 13 artists selected from more than a thousand in the United States. They follow no single trend or tradition but draw freely from the world and its visual history. Whether their art takes inspiration from Egyptian canopic jars, medieval stained-glass windows, or Venetian glass techniques, American artists working in glass use the world for their sketchbooks and are masters of their art.

Table of Contents

Preface	2	(2)
American Glass: Masters of the Art	4	(6)
The Artists and Their Work	10	(1)
Dale Chihuly	11	(4)
Dan Dailey	15	(4)
Michael Glancy	19	(4)
Richard Marquis	23	(4)
William Morris	27	(4)
Thomas Patti	31	(4)
Ginny Ruffner	35	(4)
Judith Schaechter	39	(4)
Paul Joseph Stankard	43	(4)
Therman Statom	47	(4)
Susan Stinsmuehlen-Amend	51	(4)
Cappy Thompson	55	(4)
Toots Zynsky	59	(4)
Checklist of the Exhibition	63	(2)
Acknowledgments	65