The Art of Glass: The Toledo Museum of Art [Hardcover]

Stefano Carboni (Author), Martha Drexler Lynn (Author), Sidney Goldstein (Author), Sandra Knudsen (Author), Jutta Page (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 4, 2006

A wealth of illustrations show major examples of the glassmaker's art from ancient times to the present held in the collection of The Toledo Museu m of Art, internationally recognized for its renowned collection of glass and glassmaking workshops.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: D Giles Ltd; 1 edition (August 4, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1904832237
• ISBN-13: 978-1904832232
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 9.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,707,508 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars extraordinary collection of glass work and art, February 12, 2007

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This review is from: The Art of Glass: The Toledo Museum of Art (Hardcover)

The Toledo Museum of Art was founded in 1901 by Edward Drummond Libbey shortly after he moved his thriving glassmaking business to the Ohio city from Boston. Along with the Old Master paintings, Egyptian antiquities, and other types of more or less conventional art and relics sought by most museums in this period, the Toledo Museum also concertedly engaged in collecting many pieces of art in glass in accordance with Libbey's interests and wishes. About two years ago, a Glass Pavilion for the storage and exhibition of the sizable and growing glass collection was added to the original Museum. As the numerous skillful color photographs demonstrate, the Museum's Pavilion has many choice, exquisite pieces from all eras and places around the world ranging from the utilitarian to the sheerly aesthetic. This art book tied in with the opening of the new Pavilion arranges much of the collection chronologically from the ancient Mediterannean cultures through the Renaissance and Baroque to the early 20th century with the insertion of one chapter on glass in the Islamic world. A last chapter displays art glass works by artists of the past few decades. Many readers will be struck by how some of the artists, especially from more modern and contemporary times, use glass as a medium for sculpture with dramatic shapes and colors.