Dale Chihuly has been exploring the plastic potential of blown glass for over forty years. His spectacular pieces challenge the apparent fragility of the medium and transport us to a magical world. This exquisite volume follows Chihuly's career through photographs of his series works as well as his monumental site-specific installations. Inspired by nature, Chihuly's pieces explode with color and vibrate with life. Their expressiveness and spontaneity recall Jackson Pollock's action paintings, yet their visceral physicality and playfulness have made these pieces some of the most broadly acclaimed works in contemporary art. As this book shows, Dale Chihuly's work is at once mesmerizing, thought provoking, and visually seductive. AUTHOR: Diane Charbonneau is the Curator of Contemporary Decorative Arts, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Dale Chihuly is an American glass sculptor. Nathalie Bondil is the Director and Chief Curator, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Timothy Anglin Burgard is the Ednah Root Curator of American Art, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young. Gerald W. R. Ward is the Katharine Lane Weems Senior Curator of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Davira S. Taragin is Consultative Curator of Decorative Arts at David Owsley Museum of Art, Ball State University. 200 colour illustrations
