
Contrasts
A Glass Primer
Vicki Halper(Author)
University of Washington Press
Published on 22. August 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
64 pages
978-0-295-98722-4 (ISBN)
Description
A first-century Roman cinerary urn. A Coca-Cola bottle from 1910. A contemporary sculpture of bandaged bones.
Contrasts: A Glass Primer presents a wide variety of remarkable glass objects in an accessible and lively format. These objects are grouped, as in a child's book of opposites, to illustrate highlights in glass history (factory/studio, for example), characteristics of the medium (fluid/rigid), and ways of describing art in general (abstract/figurative). Above all, Contrasts is an invitation to creative seeing.
Contrasts: A Glass Primer is published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name on display at the Museum of Glass, Tacoma, through November 2009.
Contrasts: A Glass Primer presents a wide variety of remarkable glass objects in an accessible and lively format. These objects are grouped, as in a child's book of opposites, to illustrate highlights in glass history (factory/studio, for example), characteristics of the medium (fluid/rigid), and ways of describing art in general (abstract/figurative). Above all, Contrasts is an invitation to creative seeing.
Contrasts: A Glass Primer is published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name on display at the Museum of Glass, Tacoma, through November 2009.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Seattle
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
40 color illus.
Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
Width: 218 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
281 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-295-98722-4 (9780295987224)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Vicki Halper is former curator of modern art at the Seattle Art Museum and recent James Renwick Senior Fellow of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. She specializes in modern art of the Pacific Northwest and crafts of the United States.
Content
Natural / Fabricated
Hot / Warm / Cold
Transparent / Translucent / Opaque
Rigid / Fluid
Thick / Thin
Heavy / Light
Painted / Engraved
Form / Surface
Free-Blown / Mold-Blown / Machine-Blown
Factory / Studio
Creator / Designer
Useful / Fanciful
Vessel / Sculpture
Fiction / Fact
Craft / Art
Abstract / Figurative
Sacred / Secular
Political / Poetic
Brutal / Beautiful
List of Illustrations
For Further Reading
Hot / Warm / Cold
Transparent / Translucent / Opaque
Rigid / Fluid
Thick / Thin
Heavy / Light
Painted / Engraved
Form / Surface
Free-Blown / Mold-Blown / Machine-Blown
Factory / Studio
Creator / Designer
Useful / Fanciful
Vessel / Sculpture
Fiction / Fact
Craft / Art
Abstract / Figurative
Sacred / Secular
Political / Poetic
Brutal / Beautiful
List of Illustrations
For Further Reading