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Tiffany
Provides an overview of the fifty-year career and the innovative and creative work of Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933). With 400 color plates, a documentary index, and an illustrated biography/bibliography, this volume pays homage to the work of the man who revolutionized both the art and technique of stained glass.
350 pages, Hardcover
First published April 29, 2001
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April 30, 2014
This book published by Taschen on Louis Comfort's work in stain glass,lamps,mosaics etc. is a pleasure to process. It gives a brief insight into Tiffany's life, inspirations and working career in the English, German and French languages. The second part and largest portion of the book is devoted to illustrations of his work broken up into three parts Leaded Glass Windows,Lamps and Vases. The third portion is a Catalogue of the illustrations in the previous section detailing the items, the year made and where it is on display or private collection. The last part is a chronology of Louis's life.
I recently had the pleasure in visiting the Morse Museum in Florida and saw some of the works illustrated in this book first hand. Even though no print can fully show the real beauty of these works of art Taschen does a pretty good job with its high quality pictures. By making the surround black it shows the colours of the glass to its full advantage. Baal-Teshuva only gives an introduction into Tiffany's work but I think his main aim in this book was to let the work stand on its own without any interuptions. This is why I believe he added the catalogue afterwards which gives some information on the pieces. That does not mean it is not informative. Learning that Louis first tried his hand at painting and became quiet accomplished at it is remarkable. But what was most interesting was his discoveries in the production of stain glass and how he invented favrile that gave an iridescent luster to the glass. Plus some to the quotes from Tiffany show a man that is witty but with common sense.
" Extravagance does not produce Beauty; and many of our richest people,
like some of our poor people, have not yet come to see the value
of good taste. In fact, money is frequently an absolute bar to good taste,
for it leads to show and over-elaboration."
I think the layout works well and I enjoyed reading/looking at this book. Not a book that I will every get tired of and will come back to again.
I recently had the pleasure in visiting the Morse Museum in Florida and saw some of the works illustrated in this book first hand. Even though no print can fully show the real beauty of these works of art Taschen does a pretty good job with its high quality pictures. By making the surround black it shows the colours of the glass to its full advantage. Baal-Teshuva only gives an introduction into Tiffany's work but I think his main aim in this book was to let the work stand on its own without any interuptions. This is why I believe he added the catalogue afterwards which gives some information on the pieces. That does not mean it is not informative. Learning that Louis first tried his hand at painting and became quiet accomplished at it is remarkable. But what was most interesting was his discoveries in the production of stain glass and how he invented favrile that gave an iridescent luster to the glass. Plus some to the quotes from Tiffany show a man that is witty but with common sense.
" Extravagance does not produce Beauty; and many of our richest people,
like some of our poor people, have not yet come to see the value
of good taste. In fact, money is frequently an absolute bar to good taste,
for it leads to show and over-elaboration."
I think the layout works well and I enjoyed reading/looking at this book. Not a book that I will every get tired of and will come back to again.
March 21, 2024
Beautiful picture book of Tiffany's creations.
February 18, 2015
A brief history of Louis Comfort Tiffany with a bunch of beautiful full color pictures of many of his works.
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