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- Title
Pietro Chiesa and the Language of Modern Glass in Interwar Italy.
- Authors
Chelz, Chloe
- Abstract
This article presents a case study of Pietro Chiesa (1892-1948), contextualizing both his traditional work in stained glass and the lighting designs he created during the 1920s and 1930s, integrating them with Italy's evolution from craft to industrial production. From his origin as a master of leaded glass works, designed both independently and in collaboration with others, to the flowering of a career in lighting design as the artistic director at Fontana Arte in the 1930s, Chiesa demonstrates a shift in the vocabulary of modern taste, with glass as a central signifier. The formal characteristics of his work and its promotion to a national and international audience reveal the designer's involvement with this shift, and illuminate a significant period in the history of Italian modernism.
- Subjects
CHIESA, Pietro, 1892-1948; GLASS artists; STAINED glass windows; 20TH century glass painting &; staining; GLASS craft; MODERNISM (Art) -- History; LIGHTING design; HISTORY
- Publication
Journal of Glass Studies, 2011, Vol 53, p215
- ISSN
0075-4250
- Publication type
Article