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In prose as crystalline as his subject, the author celebrates the versatility and functionality of glass, and explains how a substance known to all but understood by few has been shaped and molded to serve mankind in innumerable ways. Readers will learn how glass has both shaped and been shaped by man's changing relationship to the environment; how it has brought vision to the sight-deprived and to humans beings huddling in the dark; and how glass enters the 21st century yielding an almost unlimited horizon of possiblities. With grace, charm and authority, GLASS delves into history, invention, manufacturing, fine art, and the myriad faces and forms of this protean substance. Whether visiting the flamboyant glass artist Dale Chihuly, dissecting the creation of a twenty-ton telescopic mirror, sampling the history of Tiffany's magnificent lamps, or watching the design and construction of the greenhouses of Kew Gardens, this book treats its readers to a multifaceted vision of a material eternally destiend to die a violent death, and to be constantly reborn in a relentlessly changing world. AUTHOR: William S. Ellis
PUBLISHER: Morrow/Avon
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture 
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 | Wanda Gag by Megan O'Hara
Description not available.The diary of Wanda Gaag records her childhood experiences in school, hardships at home, and dreams of becoming a great artist, along with sidebars, activities, and a timeline related to the era. AUTHOR: Megan O'Hara
PUBLISHER: Capstone Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Thai Style by Luca I. Tettoni, William Warren
In the tradition of Santa Fe Style, this comprehensive and full-color volume presents the exotic and elegant buildings, interiors and gardens of Thailand. 350 color illustrations, 15 architectural drawings. AUTHOR: Luca I. Tettoni, William Warren
PUBLISHER: Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | A Day with Picasso by Christopher Wynne, Susanne Pfleges
This picture-book biography, complete with black-and-white photographs, tells the story of what a day in Picasso's life might have been like. AUTHOR: Christopher Wynne, Susanne Pfleges
PUBLISHER: Prestel Publishing
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Michelangelo
In sculpture, painting, and architecture, Michelangelo created some of the greatest artistic masterpieces in the western tradition. This book describes Michelangelo's journey to artistic fulfillment, his first meeting with the Medici family his battles with Pope Julius II over the Sistine Chapel, and his struggle to complete his last projects before his death.
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West by Kathryn Smith
Taliesin and Taliesin West are world renowned not only as two of the most important landmarks of 20th-century architecture, but also as home to their creator, Frank Lloyd Wright. With limited finances, Wright conceived, built, and furnished two residential compounds that rival the great estates and retreats of royalty and industrial barons. Taliesin, a house, studio, and farm built in 1911 in rural Wisconsin, embodied both Wright's frontier spirit and his cosmopolitan tastes. Taliesin West, constructed just over 25 years later in the Arizona desert, was the culmination of Wright's ideas on the integration of architecture and landscape.This lavishly illustrated volume provides an introduction to the architecture, interiors, art collection, gardens, decorative arts, furniture, and graphic design of the two studio-residences. Texts offer historical background on Wright and the evolution of the two properties, and each building is illustrated, on the exterior and room by room, in specially commissioned color photographs. Also featured are archival images of Wright; drawings and plans; and a chapter on Oak Park Home and Studio, which preceded Taliesin as Wright's first home. A highlight is the chapter on Wright's Asian art collection, at one time reputed to be among the largest and finest in the United States.Kathryn Smith, the author of several books on Wright, taught architectural history at Southern California Institute of Architecture, Santa Monica. Judith Bromley is an architectural photographer whose work appears frequently in Architectural Record, Architecture, and Historic Preservation. AUTHOR: Kathryn Smith
PUBLISHER: Abrams, Harry N. Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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