American glass : the collections at Yale / John Stuart Gordon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gordon, John Stuart, 1977- author.

Contributor:

Yale University. Art Gallery, current owner.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yale University. Art Gallery--Catalogs.

Yale University.

Yale University. Art Gallery.

Glassware.

Decorative arts.

History.

Connecticut--New Haven.

Glassware--United States--History--Catalogs.

Decorative arts--United States--History--Catalogs.

Glassware--Connecticut--New Haven--Catalogs.

United States.

Genre:

Catalogs.

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 312 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Art Gallery : in association with Yale University Press, 2018.

Summary:

"Glass can be decorative or utilitarian, and its forms often reflect technological innovations and social change. Drawing on an insightful selection from the Yale University Art Gallery and other collections at Yale, American Glass illuminates the vital and often intimate roles that glass has played in the nation's art and culture. Spectacularly illustrated, the publication showcases eighteenth-century mold-blown vessels, nineteenth-century pressed glass, innovative studio work, and luminous stained-glass windows by John La Farge and Louis Comfort Tiffany, the latter reproduced as a lush gatefold. These are considered alongside beguiling objects that broaden our expectations of glass and speak to the centrality of the medium in American life, including one of the oldest complex microscopes in the United States, an early Edison light bulb, glass-plate photography, jewelry, and more. With an essay on the history of collecting American glass and discussions of each object that present new scholarship, this engaging book tells the long and rich history of glass in America--from prehistoric minerals to contemporary sculptures"--Dust jacket front flap.

Contents:

Director's foreword

Acknowledgments

Note to the reader

For glass for country and for Yale: Francis P. Garvin and Rhea Mansfield Knittle

Catalogue

The politics glass

Index

Photo Credits.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780300226690

0300226691

OCLC:

1024165135

Publisher Number:

99983495597