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Masters: Glass Beads: Major Works by Leading Artists

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FABulous! I love how this book offers PAGES of photos from each artist, with large, sharp photos, and captions that tell you the size of the bead and the type of glass that was used. Each artist's section offers several paragraphs about their work, and the back of the book has a biography section which offers more about these talented people. (Did I mention there are PAGES of photos for each artist?)

I am a glass bead maker and have been out of my studio for the past six months. I am so excited and inspired by these artists (some have been my teachers) and their works that I am back in the studio today. Yippeee!

The book is GORGEOUS! If you enjoy glass bead art I really don't see how you can be disappointed with this book.

As I am a jewelry designer and lampwork fanatic, I have almost all of the popular glass bead books in my library. Masters: Glass Beads: Major Works by Leading Artists (The Masters) is the best of the lot.
The photos are wonderful and there are lots of them. They are large and crystal clear, showing incredible details of the beads. Each photo is accompanied by a caption, explaining the details of the glass used, bead size and the year the bead was made.
Larry Scott did a fantastic job as the book's curator. He also wrote the introduction and a short biographical sketch about each artist. Not only does Mr. Scott make beautiful beads himself, he is a very accomplished writer. The text he writes is equal to the high quality of the beads shown in this work.
Masters: Glass Beads is a book that could be enjoyed by glass bead artists and enthusiasts, as well as by anyone who appreciates exquisite art pieces.

This is an in depth look at some of the MASTERS of glass bead making. The bio's are not too lenghty just enough to get some idea of the person behind the bead. The eye candy of so many incredible beads is a feast. Very inspirational for the beginning to intermediate lampworker, and wonderful to look at if a collector or appreciator of art in any form.

What a terrific book. I got lots of ideas to work with my glass beads. I recommend it!

This is one of the most gorgeous bead books I have seen! Fab photography and gorgeous beads!

This is not a "how-to" book, but a retrospective of some of the best beadmakers, with comments by the artists. Very inspirational!

Lots of pretty pictures of beads but there are no instructions in this book on how to make them. This is what I call a "looky" book and some of the beads are repeats from other books that have been published. I was disappointed in this book because with a larger selection of bead artists out there now days, I was expecting more new artists to be covered and not the usual artists that have already been covered in other books. The last name of the artists featured in this book are: Barley, East, Boylan, Uchida, Dugger, Fairbanks, Gaurino-Slemmons, Logan, Holland, Dalton, Haight, St. John Maher, Ohkama, Smircich, Ovington, Peters, Shiiba, Fowle-Meleney, Kogure, Crossman-Moore, Mullaney, Mossman, Frantzen-Orr, Masui, Milliron, Cooney, Schmidt, Walton, Roberts, Hayashi-Kogure, Stump, Jones, Holland, Frantz, Sawamoto, Zumkeller, Seydoux, Adams, Penso, Hatz, Yagi, Heilman, and Tabor.

This fine release in Lark's Masters series is devoted to glassworked beads. For everyone's reference, the featured artists form a distinguished international lineup: Dan Adams, Michael Barley, Tom Boylan, Harold Williams Cooney, Lark Dalton and Corrie Haight, Pam Dugger, Diana East, Leah Fairbanks, Pat Frantz, Andrea Guarino-Slemmons, Doni Hatz, Hiroko Hayashi-Kogure, Bronwen Heilman, Sage Holland, Tom Holland, James Allen Jones, Norikazu Kogure, Kristina Logan, Bruce St. John Maher, Toshimasa Masui, Kate Fowle Meleney, Donna Milliron, Gail Crosman Moore, Mary Mullaney and Ralph Mossman, Akihiro Ohkama, Kristen Frantzen Orr, Karen Ovington, Davide Penso, Sharon Peters, Rene Roberts, Emiko Sawamoto, Terri Caspary Schmidt, Yoshiko Shiiba, James Smircich, Loren Stump, Dustin Tabor, Toshiki Uchida, Pati Walton, Shigemichi Yagi, and Nicole Zumkeller and Eric Seydoux.