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Contemporary Glass Sculptures and Panels: Selections from the Corning Museum of Glass

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From antiquity down to the modern era, glass has been an enduringly popular medium for artist expression. In "Contemporary Glass Sculptures And Panels", Tina Oldknow begins with an extended and informative essay titled 'Contemporary Sculptures and Stained and Painted Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass: An Overview' in which she provides an informed introduction of especial benefit for the non-specialist general reader. Then "Contemporary Glass Sculptures And Panels" showcases an extensive series of full color photographic plates providing a visually impressive and detailed images of captioned examples of glass sculptures and works of art taken from The Corning Museum of Glass collection. Of special note is the section devoted to succinct biographies of the artists who works are represented, along with an index of those artists. A work of impeccable research and scholarship, "Contemporary Glass Sculptures And Panels" is a welcome and highly prized addition to personal, community, and academic library Art Studies reference collections and supplemental reading lists.

THIS BOOK EXPANDS ONE'S IDEAS ABOUT THE POSSIBILITIES OF ARTISTIC
EXPRESSION IN GLASS WITH TEXT BY A WORLD CLASS EXPERT