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Unpaginated - approx. 40 pages. 23 pieces in exhibition, each one shown in large detail & beautiful color.
Essay "Italian Influences on American Glass" by Tina Oldknow.
Photos of the artist.

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Includes approximately 700 full color photos of Italian Glass between the years 1900 to 2000.

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Early in the 20th century the Venetian island of Murano reestablished its dominance in the world of art glass by mixing traditional craft with the innovative design of modern artists and sculptors.
Anzolo Fuga, a multi-faceted talent born into a glass making dynasty, played a prominent role in this Venetian glass renaissance.
"Anzolo Fuga: Murano Glass Artist" features never seen before spectacular glass objects created by the designer for A.V.E.M. - Arte Vetrario Muranese (Murano Art Glass House)from 1955 to 1968.

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The Salviati Collection of Venetian glass was presented to the Leland Stanford Junior Museum, California, at the end of the 19th century by Maurizio Camerino and Silvio Salviati.
he gift, which encompasses virtually all the colors, styles and techniques marketed under the celebrated name, has been for the most part under wraps since the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and is to
This collection forms the basis of this lavish book which accompanies its exhibition at the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, California.
245 pieces are illustrated and described in this the most comprehensive publication on Salviati glass yet published. An introductory essay explores the art of Venetian glass blowing, a tradition that

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This is the first comprehensive book on Venetian mosaics of the nineteenth century.
t illustrates work by both the Salviati Company and the Venice and Murano Glass and Mosaic Company.
A carefully researched work, Venetian Glass addresses the revival of the art of Venetian mosaic making in the mid-nineteenth century and discusses the complicity of both Antonio Salviati and Sir Auste
t is a comprehensive work, illustrating Salviati's earliest surviving mosaics, the 1860 mosaic decoration of the Royal Mausoleum at Frogmore and continuing through his company's last commission, the S

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Archimede Seguso (1909-1999), one of the great Muranese masters, took traditional glassmaking techniques to extremes.
His introduction of merletto lacework technique at the Venice Biennale of 1952 turned heads.
His secret for embedding fine lacy threads of glass was never shared. Rather than apply the filigree to the surface of vessels as was traditionally done, Seguso floated these delicate wisps of color i
Archimede Seguso was also a sculptor. His preference for solid glass and love of nature resulted in a glass menagerie of feathered, scaled, and furry creatures.

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Venini. Catalogue Raisonné 1921-1986 offers an in-depth account of the involving company history of the glassworks set up by Paolo Venini in 1921 and carried forward by members of the Venini family up
Alongside the comprehensive catalogue containing some 250 descriptions detailing each item produced in over six decades of activity, the book's curator Anna Venini Diaz de Santillana has traced the hi
Napoleone Martinuzzi, Carlo Scarpa, Paolo Venini himself, Tomaso Buzzi, Fulvio Bianconi, and Ludovico Diaz de Santillana.
The careful analysis underlying each critical essay and the breadth of topics covered make this book an invaluable reference work on the creative enterprise and outstanding achievements of Venini & C.

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Magnificent, really choice examples of murrine represent the 19th and early 20th century, some of them with designs by Hans Stoltenberg-Lerche.
The lively 1930s and 1940s are notable for the glass produced by Barovier, followed by the colourful and glowing 1950s and 1960s objects of Dino Martens, Ansolo Fuga, Fulvio Bianconi et al.
Very rare glass objects from the collaboration between Fucina degli Angeli and artists of international standing, including Cocteau, Picasso and Kokoschka, round off this documentary, encompassing mor

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Murano owes its worldwide fame to blown glass. The works created by the skillful hands of the island's master glassblowers have been exported East and West for centuries now,
providing some of the most exquisite decorations for royal palaces and princely homes, and arousing the wonder and delight of travellers, poets and writers throughout the ages.
Attilia Dorigato, Director of the Murano Glass Museum, traces all the key stages in the development of this age-old craft.
Running from the Middle Ages to the heart of the contemporary world, her study focuses particular attention on the master glass-makers of the late part of the twentieth century.

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For Lino Tagliapietra, glass art represents his life: Venice and the lagoon, its shadow and light.
"It is part of my culture, my brain, my blood," he says. Raised on the island of Murano, Tagliapietra rose from a working class family and a minimal education to become
an internationally acknowledged glass artist and maestro, an honor given to the most highly recognized of Italian glassmakers.
Tagliapietra worked exclusively on Murano until coming to the Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood, Washington at the invitation of Benjamin Moore in 1979.

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The first comprehensive monograph to be devoted to this significant artist.
His work blends the centuries-old skill of Muranese glass-workers with modern artistic inspiration.
Looks at work co-produced with other artists but also includes about 100 examples created by him since 1982.

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The difficulty in assessing glass art lies in separating artistic ability and intent from the sheer sensual beauty of the material.
Can a shimmering emerald piece of glass be improved by letting an artist mold its shape or decorate its surface?
Clearly Inspired is a lively catalog written to accompany an exhibition (in Tampa and Fort Wayne) exploring the premise that contemporary studio glass artists draw on historical antecedents.
Chambers and Oldknow, who have both written previous books on glass art and artists, illustrate this premise with examples of Roman, French, Venetian, German, and Russian glass and the work of 20 cont

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Photos of Murano Glass in the J. Paul Getty Museum
Plus Poem "Murano" by the Poet Mark Doty.

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Discusses the origins of glass production, describing methods used by the Egyptians and the Romans.
he earliest evidence of glass-making in Murano dates form the 7th to the 8th centuries AD and this beautifully illustrated book traces the fascinatign histroy of the manufacture of Murano the present

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This beautiful catalogue and the exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts are a breathtaking tribute to design, color and light from a collection of hand-blown Murano glass like no other in the wor
New York collectors Nancy Olnick and Georgio Spanu express their singular passion for glass created on the island of Murano, off the coast of Venice, Italy, by diligently choosing most of their pieces
Of the 500 extraordinary glassworks that live in harmony in the Olnick Spanu Collection, almost 300 have been selected for the exhibition and are published in this book.

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Richly painted maiolica ceramics from Tuscany. Supple Florentine leather. The cameos of Torre del Greco, carved from seashells. Parmigiano-Reggiano, the king of cheeses.
Jaw-dropping glass from the island of Murano. The sweet and tart liqueur, limoncello, made from the giant lemons of Sorrento.
Each year, millions of travelers flock to Italy in search of rich Old World cultural traditions and handmade crafts.
In this revised edition, now expanded by popular demand to include a new section on leather clothing, author Laura Morelli revisits Italy’s best shops and craftsmen to provide a thorough shopper’s gui

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Italian art glass since 1921 , Includes timeline of he Venini international up to 1980 plus hundreds of color and black + white images

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A fundamental re-appraisal of Italian glass - largely synonymous with glass from Murano - has been made in recent years.
The mass of technically perfect, colourful knick-knacks and "ornamental glass" objects which flooded the market over a long period, obscured the works of lasting value in which the artistic substance
This volume provides a critical analysis of some 270 glass works of art from Murano and Milan, documenting and highlighting important developments during four decisive decades of Italian glass manufac
The text unites the works of the most significant companies and designers, such as those of the architect Carlo Scarpa from the 1930s and early 1940s, and of the painter Fulvio Bianconi from the 1950s

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One of the most important changes during the 20th century was the evolution of the decorative arts from the rank of crafts to that of art: glass, today, has duly earned its place in museums, markets a
he extraordinary inventiveness between the end of the 1940s and throughout the 1950s, together with the enormous success enjoyed by Venini design, helped arouse international interest in Venetian glas
New techniques, impossible to imitate, risked consigning the firm's earlier production (from 1925 to the Second World War) undeservingly to the shadows while they placed Venini artworks among the high

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Archimede Seguso belongs to that line of gentlemen glass-makers recorded from the early Renaissance until the end of the 18th century, who survived the fall of the Republic of Venice to re-emerge as l
They are gentlemen glass-makers for the respect that they enjoyed and still enjoy in Venetian and Murano society, but above all for their urbanity and cultivation.
In this book, the expert Rosa Barovier Mentasi describes ten years of new masterpieces produced in Murano.
Seventy-four colour plates illustrate some of Seguso's finest works, produced between 1950 and 1959.

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