Craft and Material Studies

Traces the history of glass from its origins in western Asia some 5,000 years ago, though the invention of glass blowing around the first century B.C., to the introduction of mechanized processes and new styles in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Features more than 100 works by 31 of the best-known American and European glass artists of our time.

A guide to fusing, slumping, and kilnforming glass.

Examines the properties of the materials and methods used in working with glass and print, with practical applications for incorporating these techniques into any artist's repertoire.

Presents Tiffany's original paintings and fine arts, stained glass windows and lampshades, mosaics, favrile glass objects, metalwork, enamels, and jewelry. Each method is explained and superlative examples are shown in 560 color photographs.