Virtual Books
To view these virtual books from the Rakow Library, click on the cover or title.
In 1959 and 1979, The Corning Museum of Glass held groundbreaking special
exhibitions on contemporary glass. These traveling exhibitions had a significant impact on the development and growth of contemporary glass in design, craft, and art in the United States and abroad.
The 1959 and 1979 exhibitions were documented in fully illustrated catalogs
that have long been out-of-print. Now, Glass 1959: A Special Exhibition of International Contemporary Glass (1959) and New Glass: A Worldwide Survey (1979) are available for reading online. These two publications offer unique perspectives on functional and nonfunctional glass at a time when the way in which glass was used by designers and artists was undergoing profound changes.
Instructions | System Requirements (Note: These virtual books may take a few minutes to load.)
Instructions
These virtual books may take a few minutes to load.
To turn the pages, click the page and hold your mouse or click, hold, and drag your mouse across the book. The slider or arrows at the bottom center of the screen can also be used to move quickly through a book. Click and drag the round ball forward to quickly move through a series of pages. The book’s content can be magnified and the book itself can be rotated a full 360 degrees. Zoom in or out depending on your reading needs.
If you have questions, click on the Get help icon at the bottom far right of the screen. The Menu icon, on the bottom far left, will give you a full listing of Corning Museum of Glass virtual books.
System Requirements
- Requires Silverlight (a download from Microsoft)
- Xbap application (3D version)
- Windows Vista with Internet Explorer browser.
OR
Windows XP with at least .NET Framework 3.0, Internet Explorer
AND
Recommended 256MB dedicated graphics
- Can be viewed in Firefox if users have .NET Framework 3.5 installed.