Here you can find books to give you a context for Glass 1959, New Glass: A Worldwide Survey (1979), and New Glass Now (2019).
Art and Fear by
Overview: "This is a book about making art. Ordinary art. Ordinary art means something like: all art not made by Mozart. After all, art is rarely made by Mozart-like people; essentially - statistically speaking - there aren't any people like that. Geniuses get made once-a-century or so, yet good art gets made all the time, so to equate the making of art with the workings of genius removes this intimately human activity to a strangely unreachable and unknowable place. For all practical purposes making art can be examined in great detail without ever getting entangled in the very remote problems of genius." --from the Introduction
What Are You Looking At? by
"With wonderful humor, down-to-earth storytelling, and a flair for odd details that spark insights, Will Gompertz is the perfect tour guide for Modern Art. He is a former director of the Tate Gallery in London and the BBC Arts Editor, so he brings both considerable expertise and genuine love of the subject to this informative and engaging narrative. What Are You Looking At? doesn't just tell you if a work of art is any good or not; it does much better than that. Will Gompertz arms us with the knowledge to be in a position to make our own minds up by telling us the one thing that we've always wanted to know: what are we looking at?"-- Provided by publisher.
Modern Art: A Very Short Introduction by
Cottingham examines many key aspects of this subject, including the issue of controversy in modern art, from Manet's Dejeuner sur L'Herbe (1863) to Picasso's Les Demoiselles, and Tracey Emin's Bed (1999). He also looks at the role of the dealer from the main Cubist art dealer Kahnweiler, to Charles Saatchi.-publisher description.
Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction by
Contemporary art has never been so popular, but what is its role today and who is controlling its future? Contemporary art is supposed to be a realm of freedom where artists shock, break taboos, flout generally received ideas, and switch between confronting viewers with works of great emotional profundity and jaw-dropping triviality. But away from shock tactics in the gallery, there are many unanswered questions. Who is really running the art world? What effect has America's growing political and cultural dominance had on art? Here Julian Stallabrass takes us inside the international art world to answer these and other controversial questions, and to argue that behind contemporary art's variety and apparent unpredictability lies a grim uniformity. Its mysteries are all too easily explained, its depths much shallower than they seem. Co
...isms: Understanding Modern Art by
This is a handy guide to the art 'isms' of the modern day. From Impressionism and the birth of modern art to street art and Internationalism of the 21st century, it gives a practical introduction to all the significant isms that have shaped modern art history. For each ism, there is a clear definition, an introduction to the topic, lists of key artists, key words, and key works from the movement, as well as references to other isms that the reader might be interested in.
Ways of Looking by
Art has changed. Those reassuringly familiar styles and movements that characterised art production prior to the twenty-first century have all vanished. Traditional artistic media no longer do what we expect of them. This book provides a straightforward, six-step programme for understanding contemporary art based on the concept of the tabula rasa--a clean slate and a fresh mind. Since artists increasingly work across traditional media and genres, the author has also developed an alternative classification system Art as Entertainment, Art as Confrontation, Art as Joke designed to help make sense of otherwise obscure-seeming works. Ways of Looking transforms a potentially intimidating encounter with cutting edge contemporary art into a dramatic, sensually rewarding thought provoking experience.
Design: A Very Short Introduction by
"This Very Short Introduction looks beyond style and taste to see how different cultures and individuals personalize objects. Heskett shows that contemporary design combines 'need' and 'desire' to form practical objects that reflect our identity and aspirations through form and decoration."--Jacket.
Contemporary Glass Vessels by 
Contemporary Glass Sculptures and Panels: Selections from the Corning Museum of Glass by 
The Story of Studio Glass: The Early Years: A Historic Documentation Told by the Pioneers by 
Art Glass Today 2 by
"More than 250 photos of contemporary glass masterpieces--blown, cast, kiln-formed, carved, acid-etched, and more. The art here ranges from vessels to sculptures, tableware to garments, and reveals today's new directions and top levels of mastery. These works are powerful, gorgeous, sometimes startling--and always reflective of the current state of glass art." -- Jacket flap
Contemporary Glass by
Survey of the work of late 20th-century glass artists, with an historical overview: "European influence" (work of various artists influenced by European glass); Blown glass & vessels; Hot-warm-cold (flameworked, fused, slumped, cast, decorated); " Art-designer-maker" (one-of-a-kind objects by artists who also have production studios); "Narrative in glass" (documention of a story or emotion); Sculpture. Each contributing artist has one object illustrated.
Collecting Contemporary Glass: Art and Design after 1990 from the Corning Museum of Glass by 
Voices of Contemporary Glass: The Heineman Collection by
Contents: Ben and Natalie Heineman: looking ahead, not back / Cristine Russell -- Voices of contemporary glass: the Heineman collection / Tina Oldknow -- Artists and art works -- Artists' biographies.
