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Placing the Genesis of American Studio Glassblowing

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ID8894724
AuthorsErin O’connor (0000-0002-6318-5693, Marymount Manhattan College, New York, New York, United States, corresponding author)
Year2025
Volume55
Issue1
Pages68-100
Publication date2025-04-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCanadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X
PublisherUniversity of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3138/cras-2025-005
OpenAlexW4411149750
LanguageEN
References cited27

This article investigates the nineteenth-century craft idealism and twentieth-century aesthetic materialities in the American Studio Glass Movement (1962–). Second-generation studio glassblowers are cited as having equipped the glassblowing studio with a “how-to” technical knowledge system learned in Venice, Italy. Drawing on four years of ethnographic research, this article investigates the origin, transmission, and integration of this logic into early expressionist studio glass in the context of both American progressive and counterculture values. In doing so, it shifts the historical narrative of studio glass away from individuals to broader social forces

Art · Literature · Studio · Visual arts · Art History and Market Analysis · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · History

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