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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, 1997Venable, 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/plinyelder-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-archaeologicalglass
“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-nerialchemist-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
conwayka@cmog.org
Dr. Marvin Bolt
Curator of Science and Technology
607-438-5250
boltmp@cmog.org
Tina Oldknow
Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Glass
607-438-5259
oldknowt@cmog.org
Kris Wetterlund
Director of Education and Interpretation
607-438-5120
wetterlund@cmog.org
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