Brilliant color : glass innovation and design /

"Explores a glassmaking color revolution and its creators, inspired by nature and chemistry. Between 1880 and 1930, glass designers and manufacturers created vibrant and striking colors inspired by nature, objects from rediscovered cultures, and hues of the new and popular synthetic textile dye...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	McHugh, Amy (Author)
Other Authors:	Measell, James (Contributor), Hughes, Amy J. (Contributor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Corning, New York : Corning Museum of Glass, 2025.
Subjects:	Glass, Colored > History > 19th century > Exhibitions. Glass, Colored > History > 20th century > Exhibitions. Art glass > History > Exhibitions. Glass manufacture > Chemistry. Verre coloré > Histoire > 19e siècle > Expositions. Verre coloré > Histoire > 20e siècle > Expositions. Verrerie d'art > Histoire > Expositions. exhibition catalogs. Exhibition catalogs. Catalogues d'exposition.

Table of Contents:

Director's foreword / Karol B. Wight
Preface and acknowledgments / Amy McHugh
A spectacular spectacle : colored glass at 19th-century world's fairs / Amy McHugh
Immigrants and innovations : art and chemistry come to America from England / James Measell
Every color in the rainbow : table glass marketing of the 1910s and 1920s / Amy McHugh
Kinetic colors for modern times : Leo Moser's alchemy of art and science / Amy J. Hughes
Notes
Plates
Contributors
Concordance
Manufacturers appendix.