Reference Reviews

Reference for Students

Art in Glass. By Phyllis Raybin Emert. Detroit, Mich.: Lucent Books Gale, 2007. 1 vol. 112 p. $32.45. ISBN 10: 1-59018-983-3; 13: 98-159018-983-2.

While no one knows who discovered how to make glass, it is generally agreed that it was first manufactured between 3000 and 2000 B.C. How it was made then and how it is made today are detailed in chapters divided by historical periods: "Ancient Origins," "Roman Glass and the Discovery of Glassblowing," "The Spread of Glassmaking: Middle Eastern and Venetian Glass," "The Spread of Glassmaking: European and American Glass," "Art Nouveau and Art Deco," "The Studio Glass Movement," and "Contemporary Glass." Works by Chihuly are among those pictured in beautiful color photographs. This will be of interest to world history teachers as well as art appreciation classes.