Mead Art Museum Andrew W. Mellon Faculty Seminar: Jan 15 and 16, 2015

Looking at Glass through an Interdisciplinary Lens: Teaching and Learning with the Mead’s Collection

Books:

Bach, Hans and Norbert Neuroth, eds. The Properties of Optical Glass. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1995.

Barr, Sheldon. Venetian Glass: Confections in Glass, 1855-1914. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1998.

Battie, David and Simon Cottle, eds. Sotheby's Concise Encyclopedia of Glass. London: Conran Octopus, 1991.

Blaszczyk, Regina Lee. Imagining Consumers, Design and Innovation from Wedgwood to Corning. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.

Bradbury, S. The Evolution of the Microscope. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1967.

Busch, Jason T., and Catherine L. Futter. Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World’s Fairs, 1951-1939. New York, NY: Skira Rizzoli, 2012.

Carboni, Stefano and Whitehouse, David. Glass of the Sultans. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Corning, NY: The Corning Museum of Glass; Athens: Benaki Museum; New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001.

Charleston, Robert J. Masterpieces of glass: a world history from the Corning Museum of Glass. 2nd ed.: New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1990.

The Corning Museum of Glass. Innovations in Glass. Corning, New York: The Corning Museum of Glass, 1999.

Lois Sherr Dubin. The History of Beads: from 30,000 B.C. to the present. London: Thames & Hudson, 2006.

Fleming, Stuart. Roman Glass: Reflections of Everyday Life. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum, 1997.

----Roman Glass: Reflections on Cultural Change. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 1999.

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Frelinghuysen, Alice Cooney. Louis Comfort Tiffany at the Metropolitan Museum. New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1998.

Gennett, Adrienne V. et. al. Glass Beads: Selections from The Corning Museum of Glass. Corning, NY: The Corning Museum of Glass, 2013.

Hess, Catherine and Timothy Husband. European glass in the J. Paul Getty Museum. Santa Monica, California: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 1997.

Klein, Dan and Lloyd, Ward, general eds. The History of Glass. Foreword by Robert Charleston. London: Orbis, 1984.

Koob, Stephen P. Conservation and Care of Glass Objects. Corning, NY: Archetype Publications in association with The Corning Museum of Glass, 2006.

L’E Turner, Gerard. Scientific Instruments, 1500-1900: An Introduction. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

Liefes, Reino. Glass. London: V&A Publications, 1997.

Newman, Harold. An Illustrated Dictionary of Glass. London: Thames and Hudson, 1977.

Neri, Antonio. Translated by Paul Engle. L’Arte Vetraria: The Art of Glass. Vol I-III. Hubbardston, MA: Heiden & Engle, 2006.

Optisches Museum of the Ernst Abbe Foundation. Treasury of Optics: The Collections of the Optisches Museum Jena. Jena, Germany: Ernst-Abbe-Stiftung, 2013

Page, Jutta-Annette, et. al. Beyond Venice: Glass in Venetian Style, 1500–1750. Corning, NY: The Corning Museum of Glass, Distributed by Hudson Hills Press, 2004.

---. The Art of Glass. Toledo, Ohio: Toledo Museum of Art in association with D. Giles, 2006.

Palmer, Arlene. Glass in Early America: Selections from the Henry Francis DuPont Winterthur Museum. Winterthur, Del: Winterthur Museum; distrib. W.W. Norton, 1993.

Panek, Richard. Seeing and Believing: How the Telescope Opened Our Eyes and Minds to the Heavens. New York: Viking, 1998.

Shelby, J.E. Introduction to Glass Science and Technology, 2nd Ed. Cambridge: The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2005.

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Tait, Hugh. 5000 Years of Glass. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1991.

Whitehouse, David. Islamic Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, Volume 1. Corning, NY: The Corning Museum of Glass, 2010.

---. Reflecting Antiquity: Modern Glass Inspired by Ancient Rome. Corning, NY: Corning Museum of Glass, 2007.

---. Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass, volume 1-3. Corning, NY: The Corning Museum of Glass, 1997-

Venable, Charles L., ed., Katherine C. Grier, Ellen P. Denker, and Stephen G. Harrison. China and Glass in America, 1880-1980: From Tabletop to TV Tray. Dallas, TX: Dallas Museum of Art, 2000.

Articles:

“What is Glass?” http://www.cmog.org/article/what-is-glass

“Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Women Working with Glass” http://www.cmog.org/article/breaking-glass-ceiling-women-working-glass

“Pliny the Elder (Gaius Plinius Secundus), Historia naturalis, about A.D. 77 First printed edition published by Johannes de Spira, Venice, 1469” http://www.cmog.org/article/pliny- elder-gaius-plinius-secundus-historia-naturalis-about-ad-77

Mark Taylor and David Hill “Roman Glassblowers” – Reproductions of Roman glass; incl. information about history and techniques http://www.romanglassmakers.co.uk/ www.project-workshop.co.uk,

Mills, Mary Cheek. “A Beginners Guide to Connoisseurship: Early Nineteenth-Century American Blown Flint Glass.” Antiques & Fine Art, v. 4, issue 1 (Spring 2003), pp. 178-182.

“Pre-Columbian Use of Obsidian” http://www.cmog.org/article/pre-columbian-use-obsidian

“A Century of Pyrex” http://www.cmog.org/article/pyrex

“Weathered Archaeological Glass” http://www.cmog.org/article/weathered-archaeological- glass

“Isaac Newton, Opticks: Or, a Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light, 1704” http://www.cmog.org/article/isaac-newton-opticks

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Antonio Neri: Alchemist, Glassmaker, Priest http://www.cmog.org/article/antonio-neri- alchemist-glassmaker-priest

Further contacts:

The Rakow Research Library at the Corning Museum of Glass is the Library of Congress for Glass. You can ILL material and also contact a reference librarian for any question related to glass. They have bibliographies prepared on numerous subjects, so never hesitate to ask for assistance on a particular question or topic. http://www.cmog.org/research/library

The CMOG website has a lot of resources including:  Books http://www.cmog.org/research/all-about-glass?f[0]=bundle%3Alibrary  Articles http://www.cmog.org/research/all-about-glass?f[0]=bundle%3Aarticle  Glass dictionary: http://www.cmog.org/research/glass-dictionary  Video on glass processes and properties: http://www.cmog.org/publication/glassworking-processes-and-properties

Kelly Conway Curator of American Glass 607-438-5294 [email protected]

Dr. Marvin Bolt Curator of Science and Technology 607-438-5250 [email protected]

Tina Oldknow Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Glass 607-438-5259 [email protected]

Kris Wetterlund Director of Education and Interpretation 607-438-5120 [email protected]

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