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Glass of the avant-garde : from Vienna Secession to Bauhaus : the Torsten Bröhan collection from the Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas, Madrid = Cristal de vanguardia : de la Secesión Vienesa a la Bauhaus : colección Torsten Bröhan del Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas, Madrid / Torsten Bröhan, Martin Eidelberg ; photography by Angela Bröhan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bröhan, Torsten.
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Bröhan, Torsten.
- Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas (Spain).
- Glass art--Europe, Central--History--20th century--Exhibitions.
- Glass art.
- Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--Europe, Central--History--20th century--Exhibitions.
- Avant-garde (Aesthetics).
- Bröhan, Torsten--Art collections--Spain--Madrid--Exhibitions.
- Glass art--Private collections--Spain--Madrid--Exhibitions.
- Glass art--Spain--Madrid--Exhibitions.
- Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas (Spain)--Exhibitions.
- Glass art--Private collections.
- Art museums.
- History.
- Spain--Madrid.
- Spain.
- Central Europe.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 192 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 31 cm
- Other Title:
- Cristal de vanguardia
- Place of Publication:
- Munich ; New York : Prestel Verlag : In association with Exhibitions International, New York, and Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, [2001]
- Language Note:
- English and Spanish.
- Summary:
- The Torsten Brohan Collection, acquired in toto by the Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas, Madrid, in 1999, contains some of the finest examples of early modern glass in the world. This beautifully illustrated volume documents more than 200 objects from Brohan's comprehensive collection of Austrian, Bohemian and German glass.
- The collective output of the Middle European centers of glass production demonstrates a thoroughly modern approach to the craft. While most other histories of modernism focus on the primacy of pure form, Glass of the Avant-Garde chronicles the use of ornament, in a wide variety of styles and techniques, by early twentieth-century designers.
- The catalogue's appendix, with its table of marks, is especially valuable for collectors and experts, while its stunning color plates and informative texts provide a excellent introduction to modern glass for anyone interested in the field.
- Notes:
- Catalog of an exhibition held at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York, Aug. 21, 2001-Jan. 6, 2002 and other locations.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 3791325116
- OCLC:
- 47886387
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