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Chihuly : on color and form / Davira S. Taragin.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Taragin, Davira Spiro, author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Chihuly, Dale, 1941-.
Chihuly, Dale.
Chihuly, Dale, 1941---Criticism and interpretation.
Glass artists--United States--20th century.
Glass artists.
Glass artists--United States--21st century.
Glassware--Washington (State)--Seattle--History--20th century.
Glassware.
Group work in art--Washington (State)--Seattle.
Group work in art.
History.
Criticism and interpretation.
Washington (State)--Seattle.
United States.
Genre:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Physical Description:
120 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Other Title:
On color and form
Place of Publication:
Seattle, WA : Chihuly Workshop, 2019.
Summary:
"As we look back at a career of more than fifty years and counting, we realize that Chihuly's five best-known series--the BASKETS, SEAFORMS, MACCHIA, PERSIANS, and VENETIANS, which were created sequentially in rapid succession over an eleven-year period from 1977 through 1988--were the ones that really defined his aesthetic and effected the most dramatic change in the centuries-old medium of glass. By allowing gravity, centrifugal force, and fire to determine form rather than forcing the material during the blowing process to assume the symmetrical format previously characteristic of glass objects, Chihuly moved glass from being a material long associated with the decorative arts to a tool for creating sculpture and an idiom for contemporary expression. And while doing this, he continued to interject the medium into the post-World War II dialogue of Process Art."--Introduction page 5.
Contents:
Introduction
Baskets: gravity's pull
Seaforms: exploring nature
Macchia: three-dimensional "canvases" of exuberant color
Persians: Chihuly's Persians: remembrances of Venice
Venetians: a dance between concept and technique
Chihuly's artwork series
Chronology.
ISBN:
9781576840757
1576840751
OCLC:
1126284918

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