Most people associate Louis Comfort Tiffany with masterworks of glass and, in particular, with brilliantly colored windows and lamps. Yet, Tiffany actually excelled in a far greater range of mediums than is generally recognized. Here, in 72 full-color plates, are eye-opening examples of Tiffany's superb enamels, jewelry, bronzes, ceramics, mosaics, paintings, and even works in wood as well as his glass designs, some famous and some lesser known.
Each chapter sheds new light on the prodigiously far-reaching talents of this revered American artist, as three distinguished authors approach aspects of Tiffany's work from fresh vantage points. Neil Harris discusses Tiffany's career as an ambitious young interior decorator and his later ability to shape mass taste with his wide range of domestic and ecclesiastical objects. Martin Eidelberg provides a perceptive study of the cult of Nature in Tiffany's work and differentiates the artist's forms from those of European Art Nouveau. And Alastair Duncan analyzes the lascinating dichotomy between Tiffany's religious and secular windows, comparing the traditional style of the former with the creative brilliance of the latter, which determined Tiffany's status as an international glass artist.
A contemporary German critic once spoke of Tiffany's "dumbfounding versatility"; in its scope and originality, this volume confirms that characterization.
125 Illustrations, including 72 plates in full color
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