History of Glassforming by Keith Cummings
In this exciting and comprehensive book, Keith Cummings presents an appreciation of glass - its nature and the skills, techniques and machines that have been developed to exploit its unique qualities. Histories of glass usually revolve around glass artefacts and the sites where they were found. In this book, the author presents a technical history of this fascinating medium sketching how it has been developed from a rare and precious commodity to one that is in every day use to one which is once again being prized as a special and unique art form. Illustrated throughout with beautiful photographs and drawings, A History of Glassforming Techniques is a unique and important book for historians, connoisseurs and students of glass.
Keith Cummings is an internationally well-known artist whose work appears in private and public collections around the world. He retired as head of the Glass Department at Wolverhampton University in 1994, but he has remained at the University as a reader in research studies. He is a frequent contributor to various journals and he has previously written the classic text The Techniques of Kiln-formed Glass also by A & C Black.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780713652741 |
| ISBN 10 | 0713652748 |
| Title | History of Glassforming |
| Author | Keith Cummings |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2002-03-29 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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