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Heart/Red Flower

Heart/Red Flower

 
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Object Name: 
Sculpture
Title: 
Heart/Red Flower
Department
Modern
Category
Contemporary
Maker(s)
Brychtova, Jaroslava ((Czech, b. 1924)), Maker
Libensky, Stanislav ((Czech, 1921-2002)), Maker
Zeleznobrodske sklo, Maker
Place Made: 
Czechoslovakia, Zelezny Brod
Date: 
designed in 1973
Color
AAT
red
Technique
cast, internal decorations
AAT
casting
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 120 cm
Accession Number: 
81.3.38
Credit Line: 
Gift of the artists
Location: 
Not on Display
Description
Red glass; mold-melted, cut.
Label Text
"Someone once said, 'Science is a ladder which you can climb rung by rung, but art has wings.'"– Stanislav Libenský. In form and color, Heart/Red Flower is related to the sculpture New Delhi, which was created by the artists for the Czech embassy in New Delhi, India.
Provenance
Libensky, Stanislav ((Czech, 1921-2002)), Source to 1981
Brychtova, Jaroslava ((Czech, b. 1924)), Source to 1981

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Exhibitions

Czech Glass Now: Contemporary Sculpture, 1970-2004
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass
Sculpture Gallery

Publications

Professor Stanislav Libensky and Jaroslava Brychtova: Pioneers of Contemporary Glass Art (2009-06) illustrated, p. 11;
Casting Poetic Sentiment: Glass Art Creation Methodology (2008) illustrated, p. 45, fig. 51; BIB# 107146
New Glass Review, 28 (2007) illustrated, p. 82;
Glass Behind the Iron Curtain from The Corning Museum of Glass (2003) illustrated BIB# 73861
Rhinestone Cowboys (1997) illustrated, p. 15;
Masterpieces of Glass: A World History From The Corning Museum of Glass (1990) illustrated, pp. 220-221, pl. 103; BIB# 33819
Contemporary Glass: A World Survey from The Corning Museum of Glass (1989) illustrated, p. 26; BIB# 32803
Thirty Years of New Glass, 1957-1987, from the Collection of the Corning Museum of Glass (1987) p. 4; BIB# 2318
New Glass Review, 6 (1985) illustrated, pp. 40-41, #114;
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1981 (1982) illustrated, pp. 2, 4;
Recent Important Acquisitions, 24 (1982) illustrated, p. 109, #66;
Czechoslovakian Glass: 1350-1980 (Exhibition) (1981) illustrated, pp. 120, 161, #118; BIB# 30316

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