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Australian Studio Glass: The Movement, Its Maker and Their Art - Hardcover

 
9789768097606: Australian Studio Glass: The Movement, Its Maker and Their Art

Synopsis

This book gathers up the threads that make up the story of the studio glass movement in Australia, identifying its founding and successive glass artists, and presenting the manner in which practitioners in Australia explore, refine and combine techniques and processes to communicate emotional, metaphorical, allegorical or aesthetic moods or various social or other issues, through an immense range of figurative, painterly, sculptural, decorative or functional glass form.
Australian Studio Glass is the first book which documents the contemporary studio glass movement in this country. Drawing on interviews with over 100 glass artists, in addition to extensive documental research, Dr. Noris Ioannou presents an authoritative and lively text, of Australian Studio Glass within an international setting.
Australian Studio Glass is complemented with 77 colour illustrations of up-to-date works, as well as a biographical listing of glass artists.

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Synopsis

Today there is a general consensus that Australian studio glass is one of the most vital areas of craft activity with numerous glass practitioners "pushing the medium", blowing, casting, or otherwise trailblazing ideas and forms into being. This work explores the development of the studio glass movement in Australia, identifying its founding and successive glass artists, and presenting the manner in which practitioners express themselves creatively through the immense range of figurative, painterly, sculptural, decorative and functional glass form. Drawing on interviews with over 100 glass artists, in addition to extensive research, the author locates Australian studio glass within an international setting. This includes discussion of the links with the North American Hot Glass Movement, descriptions of seminal events and the work of key individuals over the past 20 or so years, and a critique of the current community of glass practitioners and their social organization Ausglass.

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