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This elegant volume highlights human connection through glass, a material that embodies a rich historical exchange between technology and the arts. The New Orleans Museum of Art holds one of the nation's finest and most extraordinary collections of glass, with nearly 5,000 works ranging from tiny ancient Egyptian amulets to large-scale contemporary works of conceptual sculpture, and including nearly every moment of glass expression between. This sumptuously illustrated publication presents an openness to different avenues of understanding and interpreting these works of art, bringing together essays by museum curators and conservators, as well as a glass artist, a foodways historian, a laboratory scientist, and a New Orleans Black Masking Mardi Gras Indian. The story of glass as presented in Glass: Sand, Ash, Heat is one of scientific achievement, worldwide trade in objects and ideas, and, always, beautiful artistic expression. It is published to celebrate a special exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Art.

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Author:   Mel Buchanan
Publisher:   Scala Publishers Ltd
Imprint:   Scala Publishers Ltd
Weight:   0.567kg
ISBN:  

9781785515378

ISBN 10:   1785515373
Pages:   168
Publication Date:   24 October 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

7 Director’s Foreword | Susan M. Taylor 11 Acknowledgments 15 Introduction | Mel Buchanan 19 Building a Collection: Glass at NOMA | Mel Buchanan and Laura Ochoa Rincon 29 Sand, Ash, Heat: A History of Glass | Mel Buchanan 93 Interview with Artist Gene Koss | Mel Buchanan 103 Glass’s Vital Role in a Scientific Laboratory | Alex Sanchez 109 Connections Mini and Mighty: West African Beadwork in New Orleans and Beyond Dow M. Edwards and Amanda M. Maples 119 Venetian Glass: 800 Years of Exchange | Christopher Maxwell 126 A Pastoral Longing—One Century Apart | Laura Ochoa Rincon 129 In Plain Sight: E. J. Bellocq and Photography on Glass | Brian Piper 132 Looking for Nellie and Lulu in Glass | Zella Palmer 141 Glass Symbols of Temperance and Prohibition | Laura Ochoa Rincon 143 The Art and Science of Glass Conservation | Ingrid Seyb 159 Authors 161 Photo Credits 163 Index

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Mel Buchanan is the RosaMary Curator of Decorative Arts & Design at the New Orleans Museum of Art.

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