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Linda MacNeil
The first comprehensive monograph on the exceptional American jewellery artist Linda MacNeil presents over fifty of her most important works and, in fascinating illustrations and captivating essays, traces the significance of her contribution to the art jewellery of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Contemporary Crafts and the Saxe Collection
This glorious volume presents one of the best-known collections of contemporary studio crafts, assembled by Dorothy and George Saxe of California. Although it is especially noted for its comprehensive assemblage of studio glass, the collection also includes important works, mostly from the last decade, in the other craft media - ceramics, textiles, wood, and metalwork. Contemporary Crafts and the Saxe Collection is an unmatched resource for those interested in studio crafts, including as it does a separate essay on each medium by a leading authority, detailing its postwar history and surveying the major artists, collectors, dealers, institutions, exhibitions, and publications involved in eac...
Women's Tales
Documenting a leading international collaboration between the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, and the Racine Art Museum, Wisconsin, this publication and its accompanying touring exhibition present the first comprehensive study of Israeli contemporary jewelry by focusing on the careers of four of its leading women jewelers. Each of these artists has played a major role in forging an Israeli identity in the contemporary jewelry movement, one that is distinctive from Europe and America. Documenting a leading international collaboration between the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, and the Racine Art Museum, Wisconsin, this publication and its accompanying touring exhibition present the first comprehensive study of Israeli contemporary jewelry by focusing on the careers of four of its leading women jewelers. Each of these artists has played a major role in forging an Israeli identity in the contemporary jewelry movement, one that is distinctive from Europe and America. 79 colour & 2 b/w illustrations
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Furniture by Wendell Castle
This monograph presents the extraordinarily inventive and influential furniture/sculpture of Wendell Castle, the trailblazer in the maturation of the Studio Craft movement in America. He has consistently challenged the traditional concept of wooden furniture design and construction with innovative works that transcend a reverence for material.
Eero Saarinen
From the swooping concrete vaults of the TWA Terminal at JFK Airport to the 630-foot-tall Gateway Arch in St. Louis, the iconic designs of Eero Saarinen (1910-1961) captured the aspirations and values of mid-20th-century America. Potent expressions of national power, these and other Saarinen-designed structures--including the GM Technical Center, Dulles International Airport, and John Deere headquarters--helped create the international image of the United States in the decades following World War II. "Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future" offers a new and wide-ranging look at the entire scope of Saarinen's career. This is the first book on Saarinen to incorporate significant research and materi...
Bigger, Better, More
The Art of Viola Frey examines the work and life ofViola Frey(1933-2004) and redefines her legacy in ceramics, sculpture, paintings, anddrawings.
