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The Glass Reader

Editat de Kevin Petrie, Jeffrey Sarmiento
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 mar 2021
The Glass Reader is an impressive collection of writing on glass art, craft and design. It focuses on histories, current approaches and emerging discussions that inform 21st Century creative practice. Foundational writings by key thinkers such as David Pye, Harvey Littleton and Richard Sennett bring context to recent texts by Josiah McElheny, Jerome Harrington and Susie Silbert. Newly-commissioned work includes essays by Mary D. McInnes, Francesca Giubliei and Julia Stephenson. This selection of material is carefully curated into thematic sections, each introduced by summaries from the editors. This book is ideal for arts students, but will also appeal to anyone wishing to gain a broad overview and understanding of the world of contemporary glass. The aim of the book is to raise awareness of key themes and to introduce debates surrounding this intriguing, singular material.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350067752
ISBN-10: 135006775X
Pagini: 416
Ilustrații: 100 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 189 x 246 mm
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Includes new writing specially commissioned for the volume as well as foundational texts in the field.

Notă biografică

Kevin Petrie is Professor of Glass and Ceramics and Head of the School of Art & Design at the University of Sunderland, UK. He was Programme Leader for the Masters programme in Glass and Ceramics at Sunderland for nine years and has supervised and examined many glass PhD students around the world. He is author of three books published by Bloomsbury: Glass and Print (2005), Ceramic Transfer Printing (2011) and The Ceramics Reader, co-edited with Andrew Livingstone (2017).

Jeffrey Sarmiento is an award-winning glass artist and Senior Lecturer in the School of Art and Design at the Australian National University, Canberra. He has been a Fulbright Fellow in Denmark, a lecturer at San Jose State University, USA and Associate Professor of Glass at University of Sunderland at the National Glass Centre, UK. A pioneer of print techniques for kiln glass, he has taught workshops internationally.


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The Glass ReaderProf Kevin Petrie and Jeffrey SarmientoList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsNotes on ContributorsGeneral IntroductionPetrie and SarmientoSection One: Meaning, Making and MaterialitySection IntroductionPetrie and SarmientoSection 1.1 What is Glass and why is it Important?Introductory SummaryPetrie and Sarmiento1. Invisible Glass and The Role of Glass in Twenty Experiments that Changed the WorldAlan Macfarlane and Gerry Martin2. Excerpt from L'Arte VetrariaAntonio Neri3. Linking Early Human Creations Of Glass With Artistic PotentialJane Cook NEW WRITING4. A Short History of the Glass MirrorJosiah McElhenySection 1.2 Theories of Glass Art, Craft and Designand Making. Why is it Criticality important?Introductory SummaryPetrie and Sarmiento5. Fine Art and Functional ObjectsArthur Danto6. The Nature and Art of WorkmanshipDavid Pye7. Looking at Craft: Upside Down, Backwards and Inside OutGlenn Adamson8. Bodies on the RunTim Ingold9. The HandRichard Sennett10. Embodied Knowledge in Glassblowing: meaning and the struggle towards proficiencyErin O'Connor11. The Meaning of Making: Philosophies of CraftDavid Gauntlett12. The Truth in GlassMario Codognato13. The Critical VacuumAlex Rosenberg, Helen Lee and Matthew SzoszSection 1.3 Poetics and Metaphor: Glass in LiteratureIntroductory Summary Petrie and Sarmiento 14. On the Rainbow Robert Grosseteste15. Glass Architecture PaulScheerbart16. Reflections, Translucency, Aura and TraceIsobel Armstrong17.Glass and the PsycheFausto Petrella18. The New RuleJelaluddin RumiSection Two: Glass in ContextSection IntroductionPetrie and SarmientoSection 2.1 Interrogating Studio GlassIntroductory SummaryPetrie and Sarmiento19. Form, Glass and the ArtistHarvey Littleton20. New Glass in Europe: Prerequisites and Developments since the 50sHelmut Ricke21.50 Years of Studio Glass-From an Avant Garde Craft to a Medium for Art Jutta-Annette Page22. Glass in the Expanded FieldJerome Harrington23. W(h)ither Glass? The Next 50 YearsJames Yood24. Recasting GlassTina Oldknow25. A new generation of glass artists seeks to broaden what it sees as overly narrow parameters for glass artGrace DugganSection 2.2 Glass in Contemporary Art, Design and ArchitectureIntroductory SummaryPetrie and Sarmiento26. Glass, an imaginative impulse for contemporary art and vice versaFrancescaGiublieiNEW WRITING27. Why Glasstress?Adriano Berengo28. Reconsidering GlassJanet Koplos29. Replacing the Myth of ModernismBruce Metcalf30. Glass is Tomorrow: A Frame For Co-Creation Between Designers And Glassblowers In EuropeLisa Courier31. Josiah McElheny: Master ApprenticeJennifer Gross32. The Structure from within and From without-Identity, Body and Crystal in Olafur Eliasson's Open LabrynthCarsten Thau33. Gerhard Richter: A Link Between Past and PresentKoen Vanderstukken34. James Carpenter: Between Membrane and MicroclimateKenneth Frampton35. Architecture, Glass and MagicMike Davies NEW WRITINGSection 2.3 Post-Studio Glass: Glass Installation,Performance and VideoIntroductory SummaryPetrie and Sarmiento36. Through a Glass Darkly: Artists, Glass and AuthorshipMichael Petry37. Glass Performance, What Is That?Riika Haapasaari38. Burning Down the HouseAndrew Page39. There are Many Ways of WalkingMaria Bang Espersen40. How is this glass? Of Post-Glass artists / Glass Guerillas Anjali SrinivasanSection Three: Key ThemesSection IntroductionPetrie and SarmientoSection 3.1 Glass, the Body, Gender, and IdentityIntroductory SummaryPetrie and Sarmiento41. Fragile Tissue and Transparent CharacterSuzanne Frantz42. Memory: Identity : Signs : CraftStefano Catalani43. On the work of Feminist glass artist Silvia LevensonJulia Stephenson NEW WRITING44. Blow Harder: An Exploration of Language, Sexuality, and Gender in the Glassblowing StudioKaren Donnellan and Suzanne PeckSection 3.2Technologies for GlassIntroductory SummaryPetrie and Sarmiento45. Expansion in Glass and PrintKevin Petrie NEW WRITING46. Collisions of Style: Printmaking and GlassKathryn Wightman NEW WRITING47.Introducing Post-Digital ArtisansJonathan Openshaw48. Crafted ComputationColin Rennie NEW WRITING49. Architectural Phenomenology and Glass: an Artist's PerspectiveErin Dickson NEW WRITING50. Taking Wing: Embracing new technologies and approaches in pursuit of pure expressionVictoria Josslin51. Glass Pipe Art: A Critical Discussion of a Maturing FieldJames Baker52. Glass in a Restless AgeAngela ThwaitesSection 3.3 Shifts in Global GlassIntroductory SummaryPetrie and Sarmiento53. New Developments in Chinese GlassGuan Donghai, Yi Peng, Jianyong Guo, Qu Jin and Xue Lu NEW WRITING54. The Glass Virus: European Perspectives and ActivationJens Pfeiffer NEW WRITING55. The Glass Factory and Sweden's Paradigmatic shifts in glass: Deconstruction, Revaluation and Redefinition in a Time of Change Maja HeuerNEW WRITING56. Hand-drawn Visual Essay on the Venetian Virus in AmericaEd Schmid NEW WRITING57. Making under the Influence: Australian GlassSusan Cohn NEW WRITING58. Educator's ManifestoJack Wax NEW WRITINGSection 3.4 Social Engagement and SustainabiltyIntroductory SummaryPetrie and Sarmiento59. The role of Artists' Skills in SocietyInge Panneels NEW WRITING60.Helen Pailing: Glass in the AnthropoceneNEW WRITING61. Progressive development of Enviromental Awareness the Small Glass industryLani McGregor NEW WRITING62. Recycle: About sustainability in Glass Design & CraftMaria Sparre PetersenNEW WRITING63. Designing TransglassTord Boontje and Emma WoffendenNEW WRITINGBibliography