This volume contains stunning full page color plates of the glass collection. There are also several pages entitled: A dialogue among collectors &amp; curators. The works of numerous artists are included.

Contemporary Directions: Glass from the Maxine and William Block Collection

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Taragin, Davira S.

Nichols, Sarah C.

Antiques & Collectibles

Carnegie Museum Store

Furniture by Wendell Castle

This book has hardback covers.Ex-library,With usual stamps and markings,In fair condition, suitable as a study copy.Dust Jacket in fair condition.This book has hardback covers.Ex-library,With usual stamps and markings,In fair condition, suitable as a study copy.Dust Jacket in fair condition.

Arts & Photography

Cooke, Edward S., Jr.

Giovannini, Joseph

Individual Artists

Hudson Hills Pr

Stunning colorplates of glass, ceramics, wood, fiber, metal masterpieces; incomparable resource material.

Contemporary Crafts and the Saxe Collection

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Hudson Hills

Book by Taragin, Davira S., Brite, Jane Fassett

Brite, Jane Fassett

Sculpture

At times, photographer, painter, sculptor but always a ceramicist Viola Frey was a particularly innovative artist who found inspiration in everyday objects and materials. Best known for her large-scale statues, or monumental figures and bricolage assemblages, her work is often referred to as anthropological in its many references to popular culture, the visual arts and the history of ceramics. Having studied as a graduate student under Mark Rothko, Frey's art also conveys emotion in her use of color. It is with color and contemporary objects collected in her many travels across the United States that Frey explores the notion of aging, the nature of human relationships, and also what defines a life in twentieth-century society. This monograph follows Frey's career from her time as a student through to her years exhibiting at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum. New facts and interpretations of her life's work and how it figured into California's Bay Area art scene and into the larger context of twentieth-century art and ceramics are also discussed. Essays are contributed by Davira S. Taragin, former director of Exhibitions and Programs at the Racine Art Museum, which organized the study and exhibition of Frey's work; Patterson Sims, former curator at the Whitney Museum and deputy director of education and research at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; and Susan Jefferies, curator of the Gardiner Museum, Toronto, Canada.

Bigger, Better More:The Art of Viola Frey

Sims, Patterson

Jefferies, Susan

The first in-depth monograph of leading American jeweler Linda MacNeilPresenting MacNeil's most significant piecesFully illustrated and containing an exhibition history, select bibliography, and list of museum collections where MacNeil's work can be foundAccompanies a retrospective exhibition organized by guest curator Davira S. Taragin for the Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WashingtonLinda MacNeil: Jewels of Glass is the first in-depth monograph to explore the development of leading American jeweler Linda MacNeil's jewelry and her contribution to late twentieth- and twenty-first century jewelry.MacNeil has inserted her voice into contemporary American jewelry as an innovator transforming glass into proxies for precious gemstones. She and her work have straddled the fields of Studio Glass and Studio Jewelry. A pioneer over her forty-and-counting-year career, she has united glass with metal and, recently, with precious gems. Exploring materiality and methodology, she uses historical precedent as a jumping off point to make stunning, wearable jewelry.This scholarly study presents approximately fifty of MacNeil's most significant pieces. Davira S. Taragin's essay interweaves MacNeil's biography with discussions of the development of her aesthetic. Noted jewelry historian Ursula Ilse-Neuman contextualizes MacNeil's achievement within the art jewelry movement in general and the use of glass in jewelry over the centuries.Davira S. Taragin: Formerly curator at The Detroit Institute of Arts (1978-90), the Toledo Museum of Art (1990-2002) and director of exhibitions and programmes at the Racine Art Museum (2002-2008), Davira S. Taragin is an independent curator specializing in placing works in contemporary craft media within the context of late twentieth- and twenty-first-century art. Since 2011, Taragin has worked with Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana. She began by assessing the decorative arts and design collection of the David Owsley Museum of Art and prepared for its reinstallation in September 2013. She is now serving as consultative curator to its School of Art. Ursula Ilse-Neuman is an independent curator, author, and lecturer specializing in contemporary art jewelry. She is consulting curator for the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, where, as curator from 1992 to 2014, she organized more than forty exhibitions in all media, most recently Multiple Exposures: Jewelry and Photography (May 2014). She has been a juror for national and international exhibitions, including the Schmuck presentation (Munich) and the International Jewelry Expo (Shanghai) and is a regular contributor to Metalsmith magazine. Ilse-Neuman has lectured widely in the United States, Europe, and Asia. In 2011, she was invited to curate the American section of Abhushan in New Delhi, organized by the World Craft Council.

Linda Macneil: Jewels of Glass

Ilse-Neuman, Ursula

Graphic Design

Arnoldsche Art Publishers

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