Ceramics Books and Magazines

Authors: Stefano Carboni, David Whitehouse
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Category: Book

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Sales Rank: 1275675

Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 340
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.2
Dimensions (in): 11.7 x 9.5 x 1.1

ISBN: 0300088515
Dewey Decimal Number: 748.091767107474783
EAN: 9780300088519

Publication Date: June 1, 2001
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it's a glassic June 16, 2006
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Sometimes I read books that are totally out of my area of competence and general knowledge. I often wind up learning a lot, but fear that the knowledge I thus gain will be forgotten soon because it doesn't connect with anything in my daily life---books about amber forests millions of years ago, the French horn, or Chinatown gang wars come to mind. Still, I think it's good to stretch yourself, try to stick your nose in new fields. This is such a book for me. It's basically a beautifully illustrated catalogue for an exhibition held in 2001-2002 at Corning, NY, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan, and in Athens. 157 color photos stud the pages accompanied by descriptions of each object in great detail. The authors have included a number of short chapters on glass production in the Islamic world, archeological excavations of glass, (it's hard to determine if buried glass comes from a local maker or was imported), on who used glass and where they got it from, and some very professional chapters on glass making, chemistry, and decoration techniques. You will pick up a lot of glass-lingo, and possibly learn plenty about the spread of techniques throughout the Muslim empires from the 8th century to the 15th ---mold-blown glass, free-blown, hot-worked, slices of mosaic glass, impressed, scratched, tooled, etc. The early Islamic glass makers preserved or expanded upon techniques developed in the Roman or Byzantine periods. Their work has been found as far away as Japan, northern China, and Scandinavia. Muslim glass craft reached new heights in some cases, but after the 1400s, production declined in the area that stretched from Istanbul and Egypt through the Middle East and Iran to India. The rulers began to rely on supplies from Europe, particularly Venice. On the other hand, glass makers in Europe produced many items which copied Muslim styles. In India, glassmakers still kept producing a large number of items for Muslim courts in the 18th and 19th centuries. The title of the book is possibly misleading. I thought it was going to be about Turkey or the glass found in Turkish museums, but no, the focus is on all parts of the Muslim world. Everyone can enjoy the beauty of the rare glass objects presented here. Even if the text is more for specialists a very good attempt is made to explain everything to the layman or, as in my case, the completely ignorant. This could be the glassical text on the subject.

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