Contrasts: A Glass Primer

By Vicki Halper

A first-century Roman cinerary urn. A Coca-Cola bottle from 1910. A contemporary sculpture of bandaged bones.

Contrasts: A Glass Primer presents a wide variety of remarkable glass objects in an accessible and lively format. These objects are grouped, as in a child's book of opposites, to illustrate highlights in glass history (factory/studio, for example), characteristics of the medium (fluid/rigid), and ways of describing art in general (abstract/figurative). Above all, Contrasts is an invitation to creative seeing.

Contrasts: A Glass Primer is published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name on display at the Museum of Glass, Tacoma, through November 2009.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295987227
• ISBN13: 9780295987224
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.6" x 8.7"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher