{"product_id":"9780295992655","title":"Links: Australian Glass and the Pacific Northwest","description":"\u003ci\u003eLinks\u003c\/i\u003e documents the first presentation of a broad spectrum of contemporary Australian studio glass to an American audience. The book explores an international network of craft influences and exchanges that started in the mid-1970s, clarifies techniques of glass production from manufacture to finished product, and illustrates significant contemporary glasswork that is not blown.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLinks\u003c\/i\u003e begins in 1974, when American Richard Marquis traveled to Australia at the request of its government to promote studio glass and establish hot shops in educational institutions. His relationship with Australian Nick Mount initiated a lineage of blown-glass artists that is represented in the book. A second lineage of artists working in kiln-formed glass was initiated in 1979 when Klaus Moje, soon to be head of the Canberra School of Art Glass Workshop at ANU, met the founder of Oregon's Bullseye Glass Company at the Pilchuck Glass School north of Seattle. At Moje's instigation, the Bullseye factory began to research and manufacture fusible, compatible glass-a complicated technical feat. Their product has fueled an explosion of kiln-worked glass internationally, most prominently in Australia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book features the work of 25 Australian artists linked to each other and to the Northwest through workshops and classes, use of a common material, training and education, shared space, and\/or production assistance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExhibition curator \u003cb\u003eVicki Halper \u003c\/b\u003e, Seattle, specializes in art of the Pacific Northwest and American craft. She is the co-editor of \u003ci\u003eChoosing Craft: The Artist's Viewpoint\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMorris Graves: Selected Letters\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eMargot Osborne \u003c\/b\u003eand \u003cb\u003eGrace Cochrane \u003c\/b\u003eare esteemed Australian art historians and curators. \u003cb\u003eLani McGregor \u003c\/b\u003eis co-owner of Bullseye Glass and director of Bullseye Gallery.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Washington Press and Museum of Glass, Tacoma","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47050017636592,"sku":"9780295992655","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780295992655_p0.jpg?v=1763683208","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780295992655","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}