Chihuly on Fire

Chihuly, Dale

ISBN 10: 1576841952 / ISBN 13: 9781576841952

Published by Chihuly Workshop, 2016

Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G1576841952I2N00

Synopsis:

Chihuly: On Fire encompasses four decades of his breathtaking work in an extensive, illustrated chronology with 177 illustrations, including 166 full-color plates and a comprehensive essay by art historian and acclaimed author, Henry Adams. This publication will take you on a visual journey through the artist's most important series: Cylinders, Baskets, Seaforms, Macchia, Soft Cylinders, Persians, Venetians, Putti, Ikebana, Jerusalem Cylinders, Rotolo and many more.

About the Author: Dale Chihuly is considered one of the most innovative and iconic figures in contemporary art. Chihuly has been working with glass as an artistic medium for nearly fifty years, to increasing critical and popular acclaim. His solo exhibition venues have included the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the de Young Museum, San Francisco; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. His work is in the permanent collections of more than 200 museums worldwide. Henry Adams is a graduate of Harvard College and earned his M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University, where he received the Frances Blanshard Prize for the best doctoral dissertation on art history. He currently serves as Ruth Coulter Heeded Professor of Art History at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. The author of more than 20 books and some 350 articles, he has ranged widely over the American field. His publications included studies of Jackson Pollock, Thomas Hart Benton, and Thomas Eakins, as well as of two nineteenth-century pioneers in American art glass, Louis Tiffany and John La Farge.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Chihuly on Fire
Publisher: Chihuly Workshop
Publication Date: 2016
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: As New
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket