Bohemian glass : 1400-1989 / edited by Sylva Petrová and Jean-Luc Olivié ; photographs by Gabriel Urbanek ;[translated from the French by Lysa Hochroth].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Petrová, Sylva.

Olivié, Jean-Luc.

Urbánek, Gabriel.

Standardized Title:

Verres de Bohême. English.

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Glassware--Czechoslovakia--History.

Glassware.

Glassware--Czechoslovakia--Exhibitions.

Physical Description:

239 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Abrams, 1990.

Contents:

Bohemian glass : lodged for centuries in the heart of Europe / Yvonne Brunhammer and Jean-Luc Olivié

The Prague Museum of Decorative Arts and its glass collection / Dagmar Hejdová

The Middle Ages and the Renaissance / Olga Drahotová

The Baroque period / Olga Drahotová

From neo-classical taste to historicism / Olga Drahotová

From art nouveau to the end of the thirties / Alena Adlerová

Contemporary creators / Sylva Petrová.

Notes:

Translation of: Verres de Bohême.

"Published on the occasion of the Exhibition Verres de Bohême, 1400-1989, chefs d'œuvre des musées de Tchécoslovaquie, organized in Paris by the Musée des Arts Décoratifs and the Museum of Decorative Arts of Prague (October 1989-January 1990)"--P. [6].

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-237) and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Dornsife/VSA.

ISBN:

0810912414

OCLC:

21197390