Product Description: Is it real? Lifelike invites a close examination of art since the late 1960s based on commonplace objects and situations that are startlingly realistic, often playful and sometimes surreal--works that investigate the quieter side of the quotidian...read more

Product Description: Paul Scheerbart (1863–1915) was a visionary German novelist, theorist, poet, and artist who made a lasting impression on such icons of modernism as Walter Benjamin, Bruno Taut, and Walter Gropius. Fascinated with the potential of glass architecture, Scheerbart’s satirical fantasies envisioned an electrified future, a world composed entirely of crystalline, colored glass...read more

Product Description: The first major monograph on MacArthur "Genius Grant" recipient JosiahMcElheny. McElheny is a unique figure among artists of his generation: hisprimary medium is glass.  Over the last 15 years he has created anextraordinary body of work exploring the relationship between art, history,and narrative...read more

Product Description: In his works, the American artist Josiah McElheny questions the legacy of modernity from the standpoint of his practice as a master of glass, starting from the confluence of design, science and art. McElheny studied art at the Rhode Island School of Design, and increased his knowledge of traditional glass manufacturing techniques by studying with such masters as Ronald Wilkin...read more

Product Description: A contemporary glassblower's work merges the past with the present. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)