The Essential Dale Chihuly (Hardcover)

by William Warmus (Author)

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Product Description
Dale Chihuly turns glass into art, artists into glassmakers, children into artists, and adults into children. Elton John has called him "The Picasso of 20th-century glass" and many hail him as the Tiffany of the 21st century. He has pioneered a technically demanding new art form that blends performance art, sculpture, and environments in the creation of spectacularly colorful worlds. His uplifting art possesses the edginess that only fragile glass born from blasting hot furnaces can inspire. The Essential(tm) Dale Chihuly is the book to read if you have zero tolerance for artspeak and a lively curiosity about what has made this glass artist so popular.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 112 pages
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams (June 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0810958120
• ISBN-13: 978-0810958128
• Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,045,032 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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14 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Glass Art For Dummies, March 25, 2004

By	Michael Miano (Middleport, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This book would make a wonderful coffee table book if it weren't so small. The great thing about the book is that we see 74 color plates of Chihuly's work. Chihuly is a genius who manages to create a fireworks display of color and light in glass. Unfortunately, Warmus doesn't know how to write. The book pretends to be unpretentious, but it is, in fact, simple-minded. For example, in the section Warmus calls "The Merchant of Venetians," he writes: "Chihuly is astonished by these wildly innovative and beautiful pieces from the 1920s and 1930s. Ever the savvy businessman, he knows that their rarity drives collectors to snap them up whenever they become available. He'd love to collect them, but knows they are too rare. How to do it? Eureka! He decides to pretend that he is back in the 1920s and that HE - Dale Chihuly - is creating these priceless items himself!"

If you buy this book, look at the pictures. If you decide to actually READ it, have a few strong drinks first.