Louis Comfort Tiffany (Library of American Art)

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Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933), whose name is synonymous with brilliantly colored stained glass, with Art Nouveau and with the Gilded Age, is without doubt one of the masters of American decorative arts. His research in the chemistry of glass enabled him to produce the famed Favrile iridescent glassware. He collaborated with the jewelers at Tiffany & Company, his father’s renowned store, to create precious objets d’art, and he created unique and lavish architectural projects. This new volume in the Abrams Library of American Art examines Tiffany’s life and career, from his beginnings as a painter influenced by the Hudson River School to his spectacular and innovative designs for the homes of The united states’s magnates and luminaries (including Mark Twain’s house in Connecticut).
Alastair Duncan, a leading authority on Tiffany, presents the artist in context. In an illuminating essay and in commentaries at the works of art, he explores the artist’s background and upbringing on this planet of upper-class New York society, his decision to develop into a painter, his fascination with the sinuous natural forms of Art Nouveau, and his relationship with the other leading artists and designers of his era. Tiffany’s ecclesiastical and secular windows are examined in depth and pictured in lush color, as are many of his most elaborate and beautiful lampshades, vases, and smaller objects. Important works in private collections, rarely or never before pictured, are reproduced here.
Tiffany’s achievement was once immense and far-reaching. He was once the first to propose nonreligious subject matter for church windows, the first to mass-produce finely made glassware and leaded glass for most of the people. In many ways Tiffany exemplified the bold, experimental creative style of The united states in the Gilded Age.
With its fine reproduction and detailed statement, this volume fully reveals Tiffany the artist. It’s enhanced by a chronology, selected bibliography, and full index.

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