American Glass: The Collections at Yale

Gordon, John Stuart

ISBN 10: 0300226691 / ISBN 13: 9780300226690

Published by Yale University Press, 2018

About this Item

*With a signed thank you letter by author J.S. Gordon* 1st Printing of 1st Edition in dustcover. Fine in VG+. Solid, bright, glossy, attractive, unmarked. Cloth over boards with a sewn binding; color illustrations throughout; a chunky 311 pp; 3.75 pounds.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: American Glass: The Collections at Yale
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300226691
• ISBN 13: 9780300226690
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

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 18th-century mold-blown vessels, 19th-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.

Published in association with the Yale University Art Gallery

About the Author

John Stuart Gordon is the Benjamin Attmore Hewitt Associate Curator of American Decorative Arts at the Yale University Art Gallery.