Richard Marquis objects
By: Tina Oldknow.
Contributors: Marquis, Richard, 1945-; Seattle Art Museum.
Publisher: Distributed by University of Washington Press; Univ of Washington Pr
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Seattle
Language: eng
Number of pages: 143
Subjects: Marquis, Richard, 1945-  -- Exhibitions; Glass art -- United States -- Exhibitions
Other titles: Objects
Description: Richard Marquis has had an extraordinary influence on the development of contemporary studio glass in America and around the world. Studying at the University of California at Berkeley during the 1960s, he explored ceramics and was introduced to glassblowing. Unsatisfied by the limited techniques practiced in American studio glass at that time, Marquis went to the island of Murano, near Venice, to observe and work with the masters of a glassblowing tradition acknowledged as the best in the world. Freely sharing his knowledge of the techniques he learned in Venice, Marquis has demonstrated and taught throughout the United States, Europe, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. The effect of Venetian glassblowing techniques on American studio glass enabled glass artists to expand their technical vocabularies and, combined with new and experimental approaches, led to the redefinition of glass as an artistic medium.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 142-143).
"Published on the occasion of a retrospective at the Seattle Art Museum."