Glass: Sand, Ash, Heattells a multi-faceted story of scientific achievement, worldwide trade in objects and ideas, and, always, beautiful artistic expression.
The New Orleans Museum of Art holds an extraordinary collection of glass, with nearly 5,000 works ranging from tiny ancient Egyptian amulets to large-scale contemporary works of conceptual sculpture and including nearly every moment of glass expression between. This richly illustrated survey presents different avenues of understanding and interpreting these works of art, bringing together essays by museum curators and conservators, as well as a glass artist, a foodways historian, a laboratory scientist, and a New Orleans Black Masking Mardi Gras Indian. Glass: Sand, Ash, Heat reveals human connection through glass, a material that embodies a rich historical exchange between technology and the arts.
7 Director’s Foreword | Susan M. Taylor
11 Acknowledgments
15 Introduction | Mel Buchanan
19 Building a Collection: Glass at NOMA | Mel Buchanan and Laura Ochoa Rincon
29 Sand, Ash, Heat: A History of Glass | Mel Buchanan
93 Interview with Artist Gene Koss | Mel Buchanan
103 Glass’s Vital Role in a Scientific Laboratory | Alex Sanchez
109 Connections Mini and Mighty: West African Beadwork in New Orleans and Beyond
Dow M. Edwards and Amanda M. Maples
119 Venetian Glass: 800 Years of Exchange | Christopher Maxwell
126 A Pastoral Longing—One Century Apart | Laura Ochoa Rincon
129 In Plain Sight: E. J. Bellocq and Photography on Glass | Brian Piper
132 Looking for Nellie and Lulu in Glass | Zella Palmer
141 Glass Symbols of Temperance and Prohibition | Laura Ochoa Rincon
143 The Art and Science of Glass Conservation | Ingrid Seyb
159 Authors
161 Photo Credits
163 Index
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