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In recent decades glass sculpture has entered american museum collection in unprecedented numbers a new phenomenon this reflects new attitudes an understanding that art making occurs in glass as suitable for inclusion in museum collectionsin this lavishly illustrated volume martha drexler lynn takes the reader on a tour of glass sculpture in american museums. In recent decades glass sculpture has entered american museum collection in unprecedented numbers a new phenomenon this reflects new attitudes an understanding that art making occurs in glass as suitable for inclusion in museum collectionsin this lavishly illustrated volume martha drexler lynn takes the reader on a tour of glass sculpture in american museums. Sculpture glass and american museums martha drexler lynn this handsome book begins by stating that the arc of the acceptance of glass sculpture parallels and reveals profound changes in the understanding of what constitutes art and in her introductory essay martha drexler lynn traces that evolution clearly and carefully from alfred barrs dogmatic modernist definition of art to . Sculpture glass and american museums will appeal to collectors museums critics and art historians covering the work of such artists as christopher wilmarth howard ben tre lynda benglis and stanislav libensky lynn paints a portrait of a medium that is rapidly becoming an indispensable component of contemporary museum collections