ROBERT WILLSON - A STORY IN GLASS
by Boccardi, Luciana
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- Hardcover
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Venice, ITALY: Edizioni In Castello / Tejas Art Press, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. FINE/fine. Ca' Pesaro Museum Of Modern Art, Venice, Italy, Comune di Venezia - Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa. Bi-lingual Eng/Italian. 201pp., list of works XLII full page color plates, index, photographs. 4to black leatherette, white titles, color embossed reproduction to upper board, red endsheets, printed on heavy enamel stock.DELUXE EDITION with Dust jacket and red cloth slipcase.
The exhibition at Ca'Pesaro in which 42 of Robert Willson's sculptures in solid glass all of them made in Alfredo Barbini glass furnace at Murano are on show together with a number of prepatory drawings, represents a genuinely Venetian event. San Antonio artist and sculptor, who has been deeply influenced by pre-Columbian art and 20th century Mexican painting. His background of 25 years working in glass sculpture in the Murano glass furnace to realize works whose fundamental inspiration lies in the millenial Venetian glassmaking tradition making him part of that Venetian artistic culture that maintains its own unistakeable quality. Includes The Glass Masters of Murano and Robert Willson by Attilia Dorigato.
The exhibition at Ca'Pesaro in which 42 of Robert Willson's sculptures in solid glass all of them made in Alfredo Barbini glass furnace at Murano are on show together with a number of prepatory drawings, represents a genuinely Venetian event. San Antonio artist and sculptor, who has been deeply influenced by pre-Columbian art and 20th century Mexican painting. His background of 25 years working in glass sculpture in the Murano glass furnace to realize works whose fundamental inspiration lies in the millenial Venetian glassmaking tradition making him part of that Venetian artistic culture that maintains its own unistakeable quality. Includes The Glass Masters of Murano and Robert Willson by Attilia Dorigato.
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- Bookseller
- Maggie Lambeth (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15500
- Title
- ROBERT WILLSON - A STORY IN GLASS
- Author
- Boccardi, Luciana
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - FINE
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Edizioni In Castello / Tejas Art Press
- Place of Publication
- Venice, ITALY
- Date Published
- 1984
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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