Fire and Form : The Art of Contemporary Glass

by Warmus, William

• ISBN13: 9780943411392
• ISBN10: 0943411394
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-06-01
• Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr

Summary

South Florida is home to some of the world's premier private collections of studio glass, collections whose abundance, diversity, and quality are celebrated in Fire and Form: The Art of Contemporary Glass. Both this handsomely designed publication and the exhibition at the Norton Museum of Art it commemorates are nothing short of spectacular, featuring more than one hundred works by thirty-one of the best-known American and European glass artists of our time, including Jaroslava Brychtova, Dale Chihuly, Dan Dailey, Stanislav Libensky, William Morris, Tom Patti, Lino Tagliapietra, and many others.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 6
Acknowledgments	p. 7
Hyper-Medium	p. 9
Nature Probed	p. 17
In the Abstract	p. 39
Flesh and Bone	p. 69
Stagecraft	p. 103
Checklist of Works in the Exhibition	p. 118
Artists' Selected Bibliographies	p. 121
Selected Chronological Bibliography of Contemporary Glass	p. 123
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