David Revere McFadden

OTHERWORLDY: Optical Delusions and Small Realities illuminates the phenomenal renaissance of interest among artists worldwide in constructing small-scale, hand-built depictions of artificial environments and alternative realities, either as sculpture or as subjects for photography and video. The book features contemporary work by approximately 35 preeminent visual artists who have generated renewed interest in this art form: a diverse group of international practitioners, ranging from sculptors and painters to photographers and videographers. This fully illustrated catalogue will also feature artist biographies and artist statements, and include a curatorial essay by exhibition curator David Revere McFadden that traces the history of dioramas and visual illusions in the historyof the visual arts to Louis Daguerre's innovative dioramas of the early 1800s and provides an interpretive overview of work by all of the featured artists.

Optical Delusions and Small Realities

Otherworldly

Cooper-Hewitt Museum

Renwick Gallery

Minnesota Museum of Art

Scandinavian Modern Design, 1880-1980

Ellen Napiura Taubman

Showcases the work of nearly ninety Native American artists of the Southwest, working in a variety of media, and including such artists as Diego Romero, Roxanne Swentzell, Virgil Ortiz, Tammy Garcia, Tony Jojola, and Dylan Poblano.

Art Without Reservation

Changing Hands

Accompanies an exhibition at the Museum of Arts & Design, New York, 7 October 2009 - 10 January 2010.

Paper Under the Knife

Slash

Susanne K. Frantz

Marino Barovier

"A journey into the art of fire through more than 250 pieces of art glass from the 20th century Murano glass collection that Nancy Olnick and Giorgio Spanu have assembled over years of study. This book offers the reader an excursion into the history of Venetian glass from 1900 until today: the most significant period of Muranese glass." "The essays in the book are written by Marino Barovier, David Revere McFadden and Suzanne K. Frantz. World class experts in the field of glass and decorative arts, each explains various aspects of Venetian Glass, from its history to a discussion on collectors and collecting to the remarkable relationship between the glassblower and the designer. Renown artists/designers share their personal insights: Alfredo Barbini, Cristiano Bianchin, Laura Diaz de Santillana, Benjamin Moore, Yoichi Ovhira, Tobia Scarpa, Thomas Stearns, Lino Tagliapietra, Massimo Vignelli and Toots Zynsky."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Venetian Glass

Robert Bell

Arline M. Fisch

Ida Katherine Rigby

This is the first monograph on Arline Fisch, the leading American creator of jewelry as art. It introduces the most important aspects of her work: full-body jewelry, which covers the wearer's body like armor; recurrent motifs like fans, feathers, and animals and, finally, something that is distinctively her own: the textile techniques she has employed in making jewelry. More than 100 brilliant color photographs illustrate the spectacular work of this innovative artist, revealing the impact jewelry and clothing, metal and fabric have on each other in her work.

The Jewelry of Arline Fisch

Elegant Fantasy

David Revere McFadden

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