Chihuly: On Fire
Category: Books,Arts & Photography,Individual Artists
Chihuly: On Fire Details
From the Inside Flap The highly anticipated book Chihuly: On Fire begins with a comprehensive, critical overview by the distinguished art historian Henry Adams. The biographical narrative of how the artist developed his seminal series beginning in 1975 examines Chihuly's lifelong pursuit of organic and asymmetrical forms and illuminates his ongoing artistic development, providing a deep appreciation of a lifetime challenging the limitations of hand-blown glass.Experience a visual journey with 166 striking color photographs and detailed sections that profile each of Chihuly's iconic series: Cylinders, Baskets, Seaforms, Macchia, Soft Cylinders, Persians, Venetians, Putti, Ikebana, Jerusalem Cylinders, and his later monochromatic approach to the use of black, clear, silvered, and white glass as the base color for his work. Discover in detail Chihuly's newest series, the Rotolo; as with his other series, Chihuly continues to push the threshold of how large or complex an object made of glass can be. An illustrated chronology and a comprehensive list of Chihuly's 200-plus museum collections worldwide help showcase one of the world's most influential artists and his dedication to exploring the medium of glass as an art form. Read more About the Author Dale Chihuly is considered one of the most innovative and iconic figures in contemporary art. Chihuly has been working with glass as an artistic medium for nearly fifty years, to increasing critical and popular acclaim. His solo exhibition venues have included the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the de Young Museum, San Francisco; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. His work is in the permanent collections of more than 200 museums worldwide. Henry Adams is a graduate of Harvard College and earned his M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University, where he received the Frances Blanshard Prize for the best doctoral dissertation on art history. He currently serves as Ruth Coulter Heeded Professor of Art History at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. The author of more than 20 books and some 350 articles, he has ranged widely over the American field. His publications included studies of Jackson Pollock, Thomas Hart Benton, and Thomas Eakins, as well as of two nineteenth-century pioneers in American art glass, Louis Tiffany and John La Farge. Read more
Reviews
The quality of the image and print is unsurpassed. The price was most reasonable, the convenience of purchase appreciated to say nothing of how the cards capture the stunning beauty of Chihuly's art, and bestow a simple but profound gift to the recipient for any occasion.
