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Sculpture, Glass and American Museums

Martha Drexler Lynn writes with the voice of a fiction writer and the mind of a scholar. In this book, she explains the issues common to all sculpture and how museums have helped to define tastes and trends in contemporary art...........not a static field by any stretch of the imagination. In Martha's 26 museum studies, one learns much about the history of each and also how sculptures made from glass came to live in permanent collections. It was interesting to learn, for instance, that Henry Geldzahler, then curator of contemporary art, bought the Metropolitan Museum's first Chihuly because he thought it was great abstract expressionist sculpture. This is a wonderful book for anyone interested in art history. It's a beautifully designed book with images from each museum's permanent collection and, to some extent; collectors will be able to see what museums prize.