Anthem of Joy in Glass

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Object Name: 
Sculpture
Title: 
Anthem of Joy in Glass
Accession Number: 
79.3.14
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 99.5 cm, W: 95.1 cm, D: 101.6 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1977
Credit Line: 
Gift of Art Centrum
Web Description: 
Borosilicate glass is commonly known in the United States as Pyrex. This sculpture by Věra Lišková was made by heating glass tubes, inflating and manipulating the hot glass over a torch to create the individual spiky elements, and then sealing the elements to one another with a torch. Věra Lišková was a talented designer who pioneered the use of borosilicate glass for sculpture. Traditionally, borosilicate glass is used for figurines that are fashioned by artists using a small torch. In the late 1960s, Lišková began to make abstract sculptures and sculptures of animals in glass that, over the years, gradually increased in size. Anthem of Joy was the most ambitious work of Lišková’s long career. Inspired by the form of musical notes, the sculpture communicates the emotion and energy of harmonious sound.
Provenance: 
Art Centrum, Source
1979-03-28
Color: 
Technique: 
Inscription: 
Vera Liskova / 1977
signature
Signed: "Vera Liskova / 1977".
Primary Description: 
Sculpture, "Anthem of Joy in Glass". Colorless borosilicate glass; flameworked.
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass
Sculpture Gallery
New Glass: A Worldwide Survey
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1979 through 1979
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
The Renwick Gallery
Toledo Museum of Art
 
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Il Vetro a Lume = Lampworking (2018) illustrated, v. 3, p. 73 (fig. 400);
La escultura en vidrio (2017) illustrated, p. 71 (fig. 2.26);
Glass: A Short History (Smithsonian Books edition) (2012) illustrated, pp. 112-113; BIB# 130360
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Modern and contemporary art glass (2006) illustrated, slide 89; BIB# 130418
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