William Warmus Boeken

Tells the story of Louis Comfort Tiffany and his business in glass lamps, mosaics, vases, and windows, with photographs of many works.

Among twentieth century artists, Frantisek Vizner (b.1936) has defined the meaning of classicism as it applies to art made in glass, a medium much more prone to exageration and Baroque affectation. Beginning in Czechoslovakia in the 1960s and continuing to the present moment in the Czech Republic, he has created a series of vessels that are among the most perfect objects ever made by human hands. The restrained shapes of Vizner's vessels are achieved by a sometimes brutal, sometimes delicate array of room temperature technical processes, most of which are traditional to glassmaking, but some of which would be equally at home in a quarry. He makes a drawing. He selects a raw block of solid glass. He rough shapes that block with grinding stones, diamond tools, drilling and boring technology.