Art Nouveau Deco Art Glass - Types Makers Dates / Scarce In-Depth Book

Description

Lavishly illustrated with brilliant color and black-and-white photographs with identifying captions, this early out-of-print book covers the makers, marks and types of art glass produced during the Art Nouveau and Art Deco periods.
GLASS – ART NOUVEAU TO ART DECO
by Victor Arwas, Rizzoli International Publications, NY, 1977.
”The development of cameo carving in England heralded an international golden age of glass.  Craftsmen, designers and artists vied with each other to create new and beautiful forms and colors, researching new and complex techniques, developing rare skills and achieving extraordinary effects.  Art Nouveau and Symbolism provided the artistic foundations for such creators as Galle, the Daum brothers, Tiffany and Loetz to produce consistently new and exciting wares.  As artistic movements changed Art Deco and Functionalism succeeded as the stylistic vehicles for many new creators.”
”This book is the first to collect and evaluate the considerable amount of valuable research previously carried out on the glass producers of the time.  All valuable information on the most important and a large number of lesser known but interesting glassworkers is here carefully weighed and presented, from the English cameo artists of the mid-nineteenth century to those glass designers and glasshouses of France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Bohemia, Germany, Austria, Italy, Sweden, the united stets and Russia still producing at the outbreak of war in 1939.  Wherever individuals or firms survived the war their story has been brought up to date.  The historical background and development of each designer and firm is followed by a description of their styles and techniques and an evaluation of their achievement, all profusely illustrated by photographs of their work.  The clear and comprehensive presentation of material together with the many superbly reproduced illustrations, the majority of which were commissioned especially for this book, make this an essential reference work invaluable to collectors, as well as for those with a more general interest in the period and its glass.  There are 475 illustrations, 338 plates in full color.”
Oversize 10.2” x 12.3” hardback with dust cover in very good condition.  256 pages.
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