Harvey K. Littleton: a Life in Glass Founder of America's Studio Glass Movement

Name: Harvey K. Littleton: a Life in Glass Founder of America's Studio Glass Movement
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ISBN: 9780847838189

ISBN-10: 0847838188

ISBN-13: 9780847838189

Edition: 2012

Authors: Joan Falconer Byrd, Joan Falconer Byrd

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The son of a Corning Glass Works scientist, Harvey Littleton (born 1922) first studied physics and industrial design, before becoming a teaching ceramicist. In the late 1950s, he turned to glassblowing, which was then restricted to the factory floor: devising a small furnace, he introduced hot glass into the artist’s studio. In 2012, exhibitions at the Corning Museum of Glass, the Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, and elsewhere will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the two historic Toledo Museum glassblowing workshops that Littleton led in spring 1962. At those workshops Littleton put the ancient medium of glass into the hands of today’s artists.Benefiting from close access to the artist and…

Book details

List price: $85.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/1/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Size: 8.31" wide x 10.35" long x 0.95" tall
Weight: 2.464
Language: English