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Book: Glass from Islamic Lands & Glass of the Sultans
Stanley Abercrombie -- Interior Design, 10/8/2001 3:30:00 PM
reviewed by Stanley Abercrombie
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Glass from Islamic Lands |
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New York: Thames & Hudson by Stefano Carboni 413 pages, 345 illustrations, 304 in color; $65.00 Buy at Amazon.com for $27.97. |
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Glass of the Sultans: Twelve Centuries of Islamic Masterworks |
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New Haven: Yale University Press by Stefano Carboni and David Whitehouse 340 pages, 150 illustrations, 100 in color; $65.00 Buy at Amazon.com for $45.00. |
| These two new books share the same general subject, the beauty of glass vessels in Islamic countries from the seventh through the nineteenth centuries. They were both written by Stefano Carboni, an associate curator of Islamic Art at the Metropolitan Museum, joined in one book by David Whitehouse, executive director of the Corning Museum of Glass. And they were both written to accompany the exhibition, 'Glass of the Sultans,' seen at the Corning Museum through September 2001 and at the Metropolitan from October 2001 through January 2002. Glass of the Sultans catalogues 150 examples from that exhibition and offers scholarly essays by the authors and by Robert H. Brill and William Gudenrath, both of the Corning Museum. Glass from Islamic Lands is based on the al-Sabah Collection now on display at the Kuwait National Museum Complex.Both show a variety of techniques-blown glass, mold-blown glass, hot-worked glass, mosaic glass, cut, engraved, and painted glass. Both have glossaries and bibliographies. Both show remarkable objects in stunning photography. | |
Interior Design Magazine, September, 2001
Classification: Decorative Arts
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History & Theory
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