| Art glass normally means the modern art
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| | have referred toglass made for decorative
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| glass movement inwhich individual artists
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| | use, usually by teams of factory workers,
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| working alone or with a few assistants to
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| | takingglass from furnaces with a thousand
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| create worksfrom molten glass in
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| | or more pounds of glass. This form of
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| relatively small furnaces of a few
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| | artglass, of which Tiffany and Steuben in
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| hundred pounds ofglass. It began in the
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| | the U.S.A., Galléin France and Hoya
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| early 1960s and showed continued growth
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| | Crystal in Japan and Kosta
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| through the endof the century. The glass
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| | class=SpellE>Boda in Sweden are perhaps
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| objects created are not primarily
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| | the best known, grew out of thefactory
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| utilitarian but areintended to make a
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| | system in which all glass objects were
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| sculptural or decorative statement. On
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| | hand or mold blown by teams of 4or more
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| the market, theirprices may range from a
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| | men. In fact, the turn of the 19th
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| few hundred to tens of thousands of
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| | Century was the height of the oldart
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| dollars (US). Thebest known of the
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| | glass movement while the factory glass
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| moderns are Dale Chihuly, who usesmany of
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| | blowers were being replaced bymechanical
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| the best independent glass workers to
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| | bottle blowing and continuous window
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| create his large and colorfulworks and
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| | glass. In the factory, everymember of the
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| Hans Godo Frabel,who creates his art
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| | team does the same job repeatedly turning
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| together with a team of studio glass
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| | out dozens or hundredsof the same item
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| artists.
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| | each day.
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| Prior to the early 1960s, art glass would
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