Czech glass 1945-1980 : design in an age of adversity / Helmut Ricke (ed.) ; Museum Kunst Palast-Glasmuseum Hentrich in cooperation with Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, the Corning Museum of Glass, the Steinberg Foundation, Vaduz.

Title: 
Czech glass 1945-1980 : design in an age of adversity / Helmut Ricke (ed.) ; Museum Kunst Palast-Glasmuseum Hentrich in cooperation with Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, the Corning Museum of Glass, the Steinberg Foundation, Vaduz.

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Publisher: 
Düsseldorf : Museum Kunst Palast ; Stuttgart : Arnoldsche, c2005.
Description: 
448 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps, ports. ; 28 cm. + 1 CD-ROM.
Other Authors: 
Ricke, Helmut.
Museum Kunst Palast (Düsseldorf, Germany)
Corning Museum of Glass.
Museum of Glass: International Center for Contemporary Art.
Steinberg Foundation.
Uměleckoprůmyslové muzeum v Praze.
Format of Material: 
Books
Photographs
Microform
Bib ID: 
87054
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Location: 
Ready Reference
Call Number: 
NK5171.C9.C98
Location: 
Stacks
Call Number: 
NK5171.C9.C98
Location: 
Rights & Reproduction Master Collection
Call Number: 
NK5171.C9.C98
Location: 
Microforms
Call Number: 
R-1694
Notes: 
Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Aufbruch. Tschechisches Glas 1945-1980" (Czech Glass 1945-1980. Design in an age of adversity"), Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Feb. 19-May 16, 2005; The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, N.Y., June 15-Nov. 27, 2005; Museum of Glass: International Center for Contempoary Art, Tacoma, Wash., Jan. 14-June 18, 2006.
"Contributions by Susanne K. Frantz, Milan Hlaveš, Antonín Langhamer, Jan Mergl, Tina Oldknow, Oldřich Palata, Helmut Ricke, Verena Wasmuth."
CD-ROM: "20th-century Czech glass design drawings in the Corning Museum of Glass".
Includes bibliographical references (p. 430-438) and indexes.
List of artists in the exhibition compiled by Tina Oldknow inserted in CMGL c. 1 (3 p.).
Corning Museum of Glass exhibition, 2005.
CMGL c. 1 accompanied by the German translation on CD-ROM "Aufbruch tschechisches Glas 1945-1980".
CMoG objects: p. 138, 147, 156, 160, 175, 209, 215, 334, 359.
CMGL also has cataloged separately a copy of the CD "20th-century Czech glass design drawings in the Corning Museum of Glass" (CD NK5171.C9 .C81s).
Contents: 
Why this exhibition / Helmut Ricke --
Twentieth-century Bohemian art in glass: the artistic and historical background / Susanne K. Frantz --
Czech specialized schools for glassmaking and schools of applied arts: 1945-1990 / Antonín Langhamer --
Painting and sculpture in glass: Czech design drawings from the 1950s and 1960s in The Corning Museum of Glass / Tina Oldknow --
The artist and industry 1945-1960: conditions, potentials and results of the artist-industry relationship / Jan Mergl --
Czech glass in the limelight: the great exhibitions abroad / Verena Wasmuth --
Czechoslovak glass: a subtle weapon in the superpowers' ideological struggle. The Czechoslovak Glass Exhibition, Moscow, 1959 / Oldřich Palata --
Czech glass, 1945-1980: development, features, location / Helmut Ricke --
Preliminary remarks on the catalogue; catalogue and plates --
Artists' biographies / compiled by Milan Hlaveš --
Artists' signatures --
The organization of production and development of design in Czechoslovak glassmaking (1940s-1980s) / Antonín Langhamer --
Glass industry A-Z: companies and institutions --
Directory of locations Czech-German --
Map of production places --
Bibliography / compiled by Anne-Marie Katins --
Glossary of technical terms / compiled by Helmut Ricke.
ISBN: 
3897902176
Object/Material Note: 
Includes CMoG objects: 99.3.49, p. 138 (#4) -- 62.3.131, p. 147 (#22) -- 99.3.50, p. 156 (#36) -- 97.3.58, p. 160 (#41) -- 62.3.125, p. 175 (#64) -- 62.3.128, p. 175 (#65); p. 120 -- 62.3.129, p. 183 (#81) -- 83.3.233, p. 209 (#124), p. 120 -- 99.3.41, p. 215 (#130), p. 6-7, 126 -- 99.3.61, p. 301 (#247); p. 120 -- 83.3.241, p. 334 (#295) -- 68.3.44, p. 359 (#337).
Includes CMGL materials: 80771, frontis., p. 313 -- 79512, p. 58 (fig. 29) -- 79717, p. 58 (fig. 30) -- 80614, p. 59 (fig. 31) -- 79374, p. 59 (fig. 32)-- 80790, p. 59 (fig. 33) -- 81109, p. 60 (fig. 34) -- 79272, p. 60 (fig. 35) -- 80517, p. 61 (fig. 36) -- 79481, p. 61 (fig. 37) -- 79893, p. 61 (fig. 38) -- 81079, p. 61 (fig. 39) -- 80258, p. 62 (fig. 40) -- 79713, p. 63 (fig. 41) -- 81038, p. 63 (fig. 42) -- 80597, p. 63 (fig. 43) -- 80793, p. 64 (fig. 44) -- 81117, p. 64 (fig. 45) -- 79469, p. 65 (fig. 46) -- 79277, p. 65 (fig. 47) -- 79385, p. 65 (fig. 48) -- 80218, p. 66 (fig. 49) -- 80947, p. 67 (fig. 50) -- 80805, p. 67 (fig. 51) -- 79313, p. 69 (fig. 52) -- 79249, p. 69 (fig. 53) -- 80959, p. 69 (fig. 54) -- 81174, p. 70 (fig. 55) -- 79493, p. 70 (fig. 56) -- 79178, p. 148 -- 79190, p. 149 -- 79331, p. 155 -- 79356, p. 156 -- 79350, p. 157 -- 79303, p. 158 -- 79302, p. 159 -- 79468, p. 166 -- 79466, p. 168 (top) -- 79457, p. 168 (bottom) -- 79460, p. 170 (bottom) -- 79492, p. 191 (top) -- 79499, p. 192 (left) -- 79616, p. 206 -- 79514, p. 207 -- 79522, p. 209 -- 79590, p. 210 -- 79630, p. 211 -- 79682, p. 213 -- 79679, p. 214 -- 79594, p. 215 -- 79660, p. 216 -- 79722, p. 221 -- 79727, p. 222 -- 79729, p. 226 -- 79724, p. 231 -- 79728, p. 232 -- 79712, p. 233 -- 79730, p. 234 -- 79725, p. 235 -- 79726, p. 236 -- 79732, p. 240 -- 79720, p. 246 -- 79701, p. 248 -- 79733, p. 251 -- 79926, p. 264 -- 80223, p. 272 -- 80493, p. 281 -- 80518, p. 282 -- 80624, p. 287 -- 80613, p. 289 -- 80621, p. 290 -- 80601, p. 291 -- 80589, p. 293 (left) -- 80603, p. 293 (right) -- 80590, p. 299 (left) -- 80626, p. 299 (right) -- 80652, p. 301 -- 80770, p. 311 -- 81002, p. 325 -- 80997, p. 326 -- 80966, p. 327 -- 80969, p. 330 -- 80936, p. 332 -- 81033, p. 338 -- 80937, p. 339 -- 81105, p. 351 -- 80940, p. 352 -- 81116, p. 353 -- 81120, p. 356 (left) -- 81121, p. 354 (right) -- 81112, p. 356 (left) -- 81129, p. 357 -- 81179, p. 364 (left) -- 81180, p. 364 (center) -- 81181, p. 364 (right).