Little dreams in glass and metal enameling in America, 1920 to the present ; from the collection of the Enamel Arts Foundation, Los Angeles, California
Enameling - the art of fusing glass to metal through a high-temperature firing process - gained widespread popularity in the United States in the second half of the twentieth century. With origins in long-standing cultural traditions, enameling rose to prominence as a highly respected form of artist...
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Los Angeles, California
Enamel Arts Foundation
2015
Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press |
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Geschichte 1900-2000
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Enameling - the art of fusing glass to metal through a high-temperature firing process - gained widespread popularity in the United States in the second half of the twentieth century. With origins in long-standing cultural traditions, enameling rose to prominence as a highly respected form of artistic activity and evolved from its traditional decorative foundations into a field of independent artistic interest. Today, artists continue to explore enameling in a variety of forms and formats, finding new meaning and expressive potential in the vibrant color and layered depth of this time-honored medium. Written by two of the leading experts on the history of enameling in America, Little Dreams in Glass and Metal chronicles the history and dynamic development of enameling in the United States in the late twentieth century and explores the lives and contributions of ninety of the field's most significant artists. "With one hundred and twenty-two works, ranging in date from 1920 to the present, made by more than ninety artists, Little Dreams refelcts the diversity of modern and contemporary enameling in the United States. It also represents the wide variety of forms of formats artists have chosen to explore using this highly versatile medium. More than half the artists included in Little Dreams are women; at least twenty-eight studied or taught in Cleveland; fourteen were born abroad and came to this country in the 1930s to escape Nazi persecution and the impending war in Europe; many studied under the GI Bill after serving in the armed forces during World War II. While sixteen were based in California, others lived in disparate regions of the country from New England to the Pacific Northwest; many were accomplished in other media but chose enameling as their preferred vehicle; eight couples worked collaboratively; and many used enamel as but one tool in their multi-media compositions. The artists' themes are similarly diverse, ranging from traditional still lifes, genre scenes, and religious subjects to abstractions and powerfully evocative explorations of nature, culture, and memory. This impressive array of makers and their equally wide-ranging subjects reflect the dynamic state of enameling in this country in the last half of the twentieth century and the first decades of the twenty-first"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Exhibition itinerary: Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts, August 2-November 29, 2015; Craft & Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, California, January 24-May 8, 2016; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California, June 19-September 11, 2016; and Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas, October 7, 2016-January 1, 2017. - Includes bibliographic references (pages 273-274) |
| Beschreibung: | 274 Seiten 31 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781469626369 978-1-4696-2636-9 |