Czech glass
By: Sylva Petrová
Edition: 2nd revised, completed and extended edition.
Publisher: Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Prague
Language: eng
Number of pages: 418
ISBN-13: 9788087989630
Subjects: Glass art; Glass artists
Notes: Published simultaneously in Czech as: České sklo, published in 2018.

Translation: Štěpán Suchochleb, Beata Havelská.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Commentary by Professor Stanislav Libenský on the first edition; title: Commentary by Professpr Vladimír Kopecký on the second edition; title: Concept of the book: art, craft and glass; title: Early beginnings; title: From the second world war to the 1950s. German occupation and the school of Professor Jaroslav Holeček, 1939-1945 ; Restoration of the glass industry and glassmaking schools ; The 1950s and the schools of Professors Josef Kaplický and Karel Štipl, 1948-1958 ; The 11th and 12th Triennales in Milan, 1957 and 1960; title: Period of international success in Brussels and Osaka. Brussels Expo 1958, Moscow exhibition 1959, Corning 1959 ; Design: fiction, rather than fact ; Optimism of the 1960s ; Engraved and carved glass ; Stanislav Libenský's school ; Expo Montreal and Expo Osaka; title: The 1970s and 1980s. Gloom of the 1970s ; Glass in architecture ; Hot shaped glass ; Prismatic and cut glass sculpture ; New wave of the 1980s ; The avant-garde glass presentations ; International glass symposia in Nový Bor ; Painting and other techniques on glass surfaces ; The angry generation; title: The 1990s. Transformation in the 1990s ; Seville Expo ; Changes in the education of glass artists: schools of Vladimír Kopecký and Marian Karel ; Kiln cast, melted and slumped glass ; Key activities of this decade; title: Czech glass after 2000. In pursuit of change: trends, glass artists and events ; Education ; Studio glass crossing the boundaries of the material ; Interventions into architecture and the public realm ; Design attack: reflections on the situation; title: Short curricula vitae of the artists; title: Group exhibitions after 1945 (selection).