First edition.Table of contents, list of plates, list of illustrations in the text, acknowledgments, endnotes, bibliography, index. 17 color, 25 black and white plates, black and white illustrations throughout text. A biography of an English artist whose work included book illustration. xiv, 321+ 1 pages. cloth, dust jacket. 8vo..

The Laughter and the Urn: The Life of Rex Whistler

WHISTLER, Laurence

Arts & Photography

Weidenfeld Nicolson Ltd

Laughter and the Urn: Life of Rex Whistler

Littlehampton Book Services Lt

Engraving on glass promises immense expressive potential, manipulating light as no other medium. Whistler writes: "We all crave light, feast on it every day, utterly depend on it, and dread total darkness as equivalent to blindness. Light rules. And engraved glass, in its unobtrusive way of celebrates this truth".
With the insight of an expert and innovative practitioner, Laurence Whistler explains the development of point engravings, its flowering in Venice and Holland from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, a long hiatus after the demise of Dutch stipple engraving in the early nineteenth century, and its modern revival from the 1940's. Featured pieces range from Amen glasses, goblets and bowls to Whistler's own church window in Dorset. The text is enlivened throughout with poetry and other quotation, selected with the author's specialised eye.
The book also features suggestions for further reading and a list of places to visit with holdings of point engraved glass.
As with its sister volumes, discerning readers will find the format and the contents of this title in the Decorative Arts Library refreshing and delightful.

Point Engraving on Glass (The Decorative Arts Library)

History & Criticism

WALKER BOOKS LTD.

From the Introduction: It is best to begin by describing how most of the pictures in this book were made. They were drawn on the bowl of a glass with a steel point held in a tool like a pencil, no acid and no mechanical process coming into it, except that here and there, though very seldom, the same kind of point was held in a slow-revolving drill. The picture is built up mainly of extremely small dots put on at speed by a vibrating hand, and with a pressure perhaps less than that of a pencil on paper, a technique that would be called stippling if the dots did not merge into longer marks and lines, and sometimes into areas scratched or abraded all over, to achieve maximum whiteness. That is to say, whiteness will result when the glass is placed in a good light, falling from behind, against a background that is black or at least shadowy. My aim is to make glass a pictorial medium like canvas or paper.

Pictures on glass;

Cupid Press

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. SCENES AND SIGNS ON GLASS., hardcover, Limited edition, signed by the author. Number 671 of 1200 printed copies. Minor shelf- wear to unclipped d/w.

Scenes and signs on glass

A bridge on the Usk

[F. E. Pardoe]

Laurence Whistler’s story of his five-year marriage to Jill Furse before her sudden early death has achieved a classic quality. Despite the tragedy of its ending the lasting impression is of two lives lived to the full in supreme happiness. Jill Furse was remarkable for many gifts; beauty, acting, poetry and above all gaiety and courage. This edition includes her poems. ‘One of the most sustainedly beautiful [prose] poems I have read for a long time.’ Lord David Cecil, Sunday Telegraph  ‘One of the most moving prose threnodies ever written.’ Daily Telegraph ‘One of the most poignant love stories in the English language.’ Country Life ‘Certain to have a permanent place in the literature of love.’ Yorkshire Post

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History

Europe

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