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Book 100 Years of British Glass Making  1824 1924

Download or read book 100 Years of British Glass Making 1824 1924 written by Chance Brothers and Co and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book 100 Years of British Glass Making

Download or read book 100 Years of British Glass Making written by Chance Brothers & Co. Limited and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book One Hundred Years of British Glass Making 1824 1924

Download or read book One Hundred Years of British Glass Making 1824 1924 written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book British Glass  1800 1914

Download or read book British Glass 1800 1914 written by Charles R. Hajdamach and published by Antique Collectors Club Dist. This book was released on 1991 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive survey of the greatest period in the history of British glass

Book Victorian Glassworlds

    Book Details:
  • Author : Isobel Armstrong
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2008-04-24
  • ISBN : 0199205205
  • Pages : 470 pages

Download or read book Victorian Glassworlds written by Isobel Armstrong and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-24 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isobel Armstrong's startlingly original and beautifully illustrated book tells the stories that spring from the mass-production of glass in nineteenth-century England. Moving across technology, industry, local history, architecture, literature, print culture, the visual arts, optics, and philosophy, it will transform our understanding of the Victorian period. The mass production of glass in the nineteenth century transformed an ancient material into a modern one, at the same time transforming the environment and the nineteenth-century imagination. It created a new glass culture hitherto inconceivable. Glass culture constituted Victorian modernity. It was made from infinite variations of the prefabricated glass panel, and the lens. The mirror and the window became its formative elements, both the texts and constituents of glass culture. The glassworlds of the century are heterogeneous. They manifest themselves in the technologies of the factory furnace, in the myths of Cinderella and her glass slipper circulated in print media, in the ideologies of the conservatory as building type, in the fantasia of the shopfront, in the production of chandeliers, in the Crystal Palace, and the lens-made images of the magic lantern and microscope. But they were nevertheless governed by two inescapable conditions. First, to look through glass was to look through the residues of the breath of an unknown artisan, because glass was mass produced by incorporating glassblowing into the division of labour. Second, literally a new medium, glass brought the ambiguity of transparency and the problems of mediation into the everyday. It intervened between seer and seen, incorporating a modern philosophical problem into bodily experience. Thus for poets and novelists glass took on material and ontological, political, and aesthetic meanings. Reading glass forwards into Bauhaus modernism, Walter Benjamin overlooked an early phase of glass culture where the languages of glass are different. The book charts this phase in three parts. Factory archives, trade union records, and periodicals document the individual manufacturers and artisans who founded glass culture, the industrial tourists who described it, and the systematic politics of window-breaking. Part Two, culminating in glass under glass at the Crystal Palace, reads the glassing of the environment, including the mirror, the window, and controversy round the conservatory, and their inscription in poems and novels. Part Three explores the lens, from optical toys to 'philosophical' instruments as the telescope and microscope were known. A meditation on its history and phenomenology, Victorian Glassworlds is a poetics of glass for nineteenth-century modernity.

Book The Glass Industry

Download or read book The Glass Industry written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Curiosities of Glass Making

Download or read book Curiosities of Glass Making written by Apsley Pellatt and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fifty Years of Glass Making

Download or read book Fifty Years of Glass Making written by Macbeth-Evans Glass Company and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book 5000 Years of Glass

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hugh Tait
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 9780714150956
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book 5000 Years of Glass written by Hugh Tait and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of this definitive world history of glassmaking and decorative techniques from 2500 BC, updated to cover the first decade of the 21st century. This classic book traces the history of glassmaking from its origins in Western Asia some 5000 years ago, through the invention of glassblowing around the first century BC, to the introduction of mechanised processes and new styles in the 19th and 20th centuries. It highlights the flourishing industries of ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt, the extraordinary achievements of the Roman Empire, the elegant vessels of the Islamic Near East, the superb mastery of Renaissance Venice and the wide‐ranging experiments of modern Europe and America. With a new final chapter by John P. Smith, Editor of The Glass Circle journal, to bring the book right up to date with the latest developments, 5000 Years of Glass is still the definitive single‐volume general history of this most versatile art form.

Book A History of English Glassmaking  AD 43 1800

Download or read book A History of English Glassmaking AD 43 1800 written by Hugh B. Willmott and published by Tempus Publishing, Limited. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies the nature and development of the glass industry in England, from its earliest origins with the arrival of the Roman Army until the beginning of the 19th century when new processes of mass production were introduced. Using historical, archaeological, and pictorial sources, the book discusses the techniques and requirements of glassmaking.

Book Journal of the British Astronomical Association

Download or read book Journal of the British Astronomical Association written by British Astronomical Association and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of members, 1890-1913, bound with v. 1-23.

Book The Place of Glass in Building

Download or read book The Place of Glass in Building written by John Gloag and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-10-24 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1943, The Place of Glass in Building is a comprehensive and compact survey of the structural uses of glass in 20th Century architecture. It gives the facts about the physical properties, the possibilities and the limitations of the glass in common use. It also deals with the attributes of specialised and decorative glass and provides detailed descriptions of the principal types which were manufactured in the UK. Intended for architectural students it may also be of interest to architects, for it is a condensed survey of the progress that has been made in this structural and decorative material.

Book The History of Glass

Download or read book The History of Glass written by Dan Klein and published by London : Orbis. This book was released on 1984 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Glass Making in England

    Book Details:
  • Author : Harry J. Powell
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2014-07-17
  • ISBN : 9781107689664
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Glass Making in England written by Harry J. Powell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1923, this book examines the history of glass-making in England from its origins in Imperial Roman techniques to the end of WWI. The text is richly illustrated with drawings and photographs of examples of glass and glass-making techniques though history. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the history of this decorative and practical art.

Book Old English Glasses

Download or read book Old English Glasses written by Albert Hartshorne and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Five Thousand Years of Glass

Download or read book Five Thousand Years of Glass written by Hugh Tait and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete history of glass from its origins 5000 years ago to mechanized processes for its production in the twentieth century.

Book British Glass

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1978
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 40 pages

Download or read book British Glass written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: