Collectie
Robert Willson, Image-maker
Glass artist Robert Willson (1912-2000) was one of the most complex and contradictory American artists of the past century. He was at once regional and international, steeped in Pre-Columbian art as well as Texas folklore. Educated in the Southwest a...
Christian Herdeg (neon)
Elemente des Designs
Engraved Glass. International Contemporary Artists
It is the transparent quality of glass that makes engraved glass special. The fusion of remarkable technical skill with artistic vision and the hard unforgiving medium of glass through which light passes gives engraved glass its special magic.
For...
De Glaspioniers in het veen
Zwaag vertelt over de leefwijze rond een glashut, en de opkomst en het wel en wee van de fabrieken, hun eigenaren, werknemers en hun families vanaf de eerste glasfabriek in 1838 in Nieuw Buinen.
Ceramics and Glass: a Basic Technology
At first sight the two crafts of producing pottery and making articles in glass seem to be completely separate, however, they have a great deal in common. One process involves the cold working of a plastic material which becomes permanently hardened ...
Basic Optical Stress Measurement in Glass
During the manufacture of all glass products, both temporary and residual stresses develop. Such stresses arise as a consequence of the manufacturing processes and for proper process control to be exercised it is necessary to be able to quantify thes...
Masterpieces of Glass. A world history from the Corning Museum of Glass
By Robert Charleston This book presents landmark works from the collection of The Corning Museum of Glass and describes in great detail the many remarkable achievements in glassmaking history that they represent. The volume includes 100 color illustr...
The Glasshouse
When John Ruskin disparaged the Crystal Palace as 'a great cucumber frame', he hit upon a truism. Representing the zenith of Victorian glasshouses, the Crystal Palace epitomized a building type that had been developed by horticulturists and garden ...
Richard Meitner
Ubuntu
Dit boek, met voorwoord van Dr. Desmond Tutu, geeft een overzicht van zijn collectie nieuw werk en bevat tevens 12 gedichten van Van den Ham.
