Research Catalog

Title

Contemporary crafts and the Saxe collection / organized by Davira S. Taragin ; with essays by Jane Fassett Brite ... [et al. ; editor, Terry Ann R. Neff].

Author

Taragin, Davira Spiro.

Publication

New York : Hudson Hills Press ; Toledo, : Toledo Museum of Art ; [Lanham, Md.] : Distributed in the U.S. by National Book Network, c1993.

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Additional Authors

• Brite, Jane Fassett.
• Neff, Terry Ann R.
• Toledo Museum of Art.

Description

216 p. : ill. (some col.); 26 cm.

Summary

• Crafts, including as it does a separate essay on each medium by a leading authority, detailing its postwar history and surveying the major artists, collectors, dealers, institutions, exhibitions, and publications involved in each. The essay on studio glass is by Susanne K. Frantz, Head of the Curatorial Department at The Corning Museum of Glass; on ceramics by Martha Drexler Lynn, Assistant Curator of Decorative Arts, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; on fiber arts by.
• Jane Fassett Brite, Director and Curator, Walker's Point Center for the Arts; on wood by Edward S. Cooke, Jr., Associate Professor of American Decorative Arts at Yale University; and on metalwork and jewelry by Laurie A. Stein, Curator of the Werkbund-Archiv, Berlin. Davira S. Taragin, Curator of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Glass at The Toledo Museum of Art, contributes essays on the Saxe Collection and on the flowering of studio crafts in the postwar period, as.
• This glorious volume presents one of the best-known collections of contemporary studio crafts, assembled by Dorothy and George Saxe of California. Although it is especially noted for its comprehensive assemblage of studio glass, the collection also includes important works, mostly from the last decade, in the other craft media - ceramics, textiles, wood, and metalwork. Contemporary Crafts and the Saxe Collection is an unmatched resource for those interested in studio.
• Travels to The Saint Louis Art Museum; the Newport Harbor Art Museum, California; and the Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
• Well as an extended interview with Helen W. Drutt English, legendary curator, historian, dealer, collector, and doyenne of the studio craft movement in America. Part of the Saxe collection was recently given to The Toledo Museum of Art, which organized an exhibition of 123 objects by 98 artists. Contemporary Crafts and the Saxe Collection reproduces each of these objects in full color and provides a thumbnail biographical sketch of each artist. The exhibition also.

Subject

• Decorative arts > History > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Decorative arts > Menlo Park > Exhibitions
• Decorative arts > Private collections > Menlo Park > Exhibitions
• Decorative arts > Private collections > Toledo > Exhibitions
• Decorative arts > Toledo > Exhibitions
• Earl, Jack
• Saxe, Dorothy > Art collections > Exhibitions
• Saxe, George > Art collections > Exhibitions
• Toledo Museum of Art > Exhibitions
• Turner, Robert

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition organized by the Toledo Museum of Art, shown there Sept. 12-Nov. 14, 1993, and at other museums.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Forward / David W. Steadman -- Preface and acknowledgments / Davira S. Taragin -- Studio craft comes of age / Davira S. Taragin -- The evolution of studio glass collecting and documentation in the United States / Susanne K. Frantz -- Clay leads the studio crafts into the art world / Martha Drexler Lynn -- Fiber art gathers momentum / Jane Fassett Brite -- Wood in the 1980s: expansion or commodification? / Edward S. Cooke, Jr. -- In search of a history: the evolution and patronage of contemporary metalwork and jewelry / Laurie A. Stein -- The Dorothy and George Saxe Collection: a case study / Davira S. Taragin -- An observation of the early years: a dialogue between Helen W. Drutt English and Davira S. Taragin.

ISBN

• 1555950736 (hc) :
• 1555950744 (pb) :

LCCN

^^^93017546^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library