Venice and American Studio Glass

Description

Following previous books on Sottsass, Marinot and others, Skira's latest installment in its series on glass art surveys the diversity of contemporary American art and design in glass

Assembled by Tina Oldknow and William Warmus, former curators of modern and contemporary glass at the Corning Museum of Glass in New York, Venice and American Studio Glass brings together 155 outstanding glass vessels, sculptures and installations created by 60 American and Venetian artists, constituting the first book to examine the influences of traditional Venetian techniques, as well as the Venetian aesthetic, on American Studio Glass from the 1960s to the present.

Artists include: Philip Baldwin, Monica Guggisberg, Alfredo Barbini, Fulvio Bianconi, Martin Blank, Sonja Blomdahl, Nancy Callan, James Carpenter, Dale Chihuly, Deborah Czeresko, Dan Dailey, Laura Donefer, Jeff Mack, Fritz Dreisbach, Claire Falkenstein, Katherine Gray, William Gudenrath, Kim Harty, Richard Jolley, John Kiley, Beth Lipman, Marvin Lipofsky, Harvey K. Littleton, Flora C. Mace, Joey Kirkpatrick, Dante Marioni, Richard Marquis, Napoleone Martinuzzi, Josiah McElheny, James Mongrain, Benjamin P. Moore, William Morris, Andy Paiko, Marc Petrovic, Stephen Rolfe Powell, Kait Rhoads, Alexander Rosenberg, Richard Royal and more.