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Music of The Spheres Art Works of Mark Matthews HC (C: 0-1-2

MUSIC OF THE SPHERES ART WORKS OF MARK MATTHEWS HC (C: 0-1-2
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Mark Matthews has been making marbles for 35 years. Some-the banded lutzes and opaques, the latticino and solid and vane cores, the clambroths, onionskins, and peppermints-acknowledge their nineteenth century roots. Others-the precision air traps, the filigranas, the graals-employ techniques never before used in the making of marbles. Matthews makes marbles-spherical glass objects, to be sure, but glass spheres invested with a meaning, a significance, an aesthetic vision and purpose. In this sense, the marble is a means to an end, not an end in itself. Aesthetics-issues of form and color theory-combine with investigations into the physical and chemical properties of glass, which, in turn, engage social history and economic concerns, and all in the unlikely form of the marble, a crystalline sphere which, in Matthews' hands, produces its own kind of music.

  • Publisher: Hermes Press
  • Writer: Robert Crafton
  • Artist: Mark Matthews
  • Product Code: NOV221552
  • Expected Ship Date: 6/28/2023
  • Regular Price: $60.00
  • DCBS Price: $42.00
  • You save 30%!
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