Art Glasses

Abstract

In the popular imagination, the art of glass remains primarily tied to prestigious places such as Venice and Bohemia, to the qualities of materials like crystal, to eras and to specific movements, for example, Art Nouveau and Art Deco. At the same time, the glass is too often reduced to a certain category of product, table service or lamps, that is to say, objects for everyday use distant from the solemnity and the value of a work of art. If this vision is not entirely false, it remains desperately simplistic and does not reflect the diversity and complexity of the glass creation. Since the nineteenth century, diverse and brilliant personalities, such as Émile Gallé, Gunnel Nyman, Toots Zynsky or Stanislav Libenský, have produced glass art works in which the aesthetics vie with technical excellence.