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Robert Willson : image-maker / Matthew Kangas

By:

Kangas, Matthew

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: San Antonio : Pace-Willson Foundation ; Seattle, Wash. : University of Washington Press, c2001Description: 171 p. : illus. ; 31 cmISBN:

9780295982182

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

748.092 WIL 21

Summary: Robert Willson was one of the most complex and contradictory American artists of the past century. Among the first American sculptors to use solid glass in a small factory setting, he was at once regional and international, steeped in pre-Columbian art as well as Texas folklore. Educated in the Southwest and Mexico, he discovered the glass studios of Murano, Italy, at the age of forty-four and never looked back. In Robert Image-Maker, author Matthew Kangas fills in a gaping niche in American art history, the tale of the gangly fellow who sounded like actor James Stweart, fell in love with Venice, and spent the next thirty-seven summers there making solid glass sculptures.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	748.092 WIL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	non fiction		025278

Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-169).

Robert Willson was one of the most complex and contradictory American artists of the past century. Among the first American sculptors to use solid glass in a small factory setting, he was at once regional and international, steeped in pre-Columbian art as well as Texas folklore. Educated in the Southwest and Mexico, he discovered the glass studios of Murano, Italy, at the age of forty-four and never looked back. In Robert Image-Maker, author Matthew Kangas fills in a gaping niche in American art history, the tale of the gangly fellow who sounded like actor James Stweart, fell in love with Venice, and spent the next thirty-seven summers there making solid glass sculptures.

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