Art Books
Signed "Chihuly Over Venice" Book
- Item Number
- 803
- Estimated Value
- 150 USD
- Sold
- 70 USD to rba0b342f
- Number of Bids
- 3 - Bid History
Item Description
A custom-painted artist's signature and interior signature for Margrit and Bob Mondavi complement this copy of Chihuly Over Venice. Bound like an artist's sketchbook, this book documents the culmination of the artistic odyssey that took artist Dale Chihuly from his Seattle Boathouse hot shop to Nuutajarvi, Finland; Waterford, Ireland; Monterrey, Mexico; and finally Venice to blow glass. In the factories in those locations, Chihuly and his team of American glass blowers worked with native artisans more accustomed to making functional objects than art. Together they created the 14 chandeliers that graced the campos and canals of Venice for a remarkable time in September 1996. In her essay Dana Self, curator of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, muses on the relationship of Chihuly's glass and 'The Spectacle of Beauty'. She concludes that "Chihuly's fantastical explorations demonstrate that beauty does produce a meaningful experience of the world." Writer William Warmus chronicles the culmination of this two-year project with his diary entries. Full-colour photographs record for readers the installations as they were assembled. An extensive chronology traces the artist's career.
Item Special Note
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