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Smithsonian Institution Press, Published 1998. Paperback, 191 pp.; 31 cm; illustrated throughout with color plates and black-and-white photographs.
Rare, out-of-print & unusual books · Since 1997
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In Very Good condition. Oversized glossy pictorial paper covers with a Fritz Dreisbach blown glass detail on the front and a Bruce Metcalf wood necklace on the back; light bumping and creasing to corners and edges with mild shelf wear. Binding tight; pages clean and unmarked.Issued by the Renwick Gallery, National Museum of American Art, and Smithsonian Institution Press to mark the gallery's twenty-fifth anniversary in 1997. Curator-in-charge Kenneth R. Trapp traces the Renwick's growth from a kunsthalle for temporary exhibitions to the nation's premier showcase and study center for objects made of metal, fiber, wood, clay, and glass. Howard Risatti contributes an essay on the metaphysical implications of function, material, and technique in craft. Color plates are organized by medium, with brief biographies of sixty-five artists including Anni Albers, Wendell Castle, Dale Chihuly, Harvey Littleton, Peter Voulkos, and Beatrice Wood. Front cover image: Fritz Dreisbach, Ruby Wet Foot Mongo. Back cover image: Bruce Metcalf, Wood Necklace #11. Frontispiece: Albert Paley at work on Portal Gates.Contents: Foreword by Elizabeth Broun; Acknowledgments by Kenneth R. Trapp; Dedicated to Art: Twenty-Five Years at the Renwick Gallery (Kenneth R. Trapp); Metaphysical Implications of Function, Material, and Technique in Craft (Howard Risatti); Color Plates (Clay, Fiber, Glass, Metal, Wood); Chronology of the Renwick Gallery; Chronology of the James Renwick Alliance; Artists' Biographies.