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Detroit: Wayne State University Press. Fine. Date: 1988. First Edition. First Printing; Softcover. 0814320635 . B&W and Color; 8 1/2 x 8 1/2; 234 pages; Soft cover has white spine with black lettering. Slight rubbing to covers. Pages are clean and tight. Lavishly illustrated with 71 b/w plates and 16 color plates. 'Harry Bertoia ( 1915 – 1978[ was an Italian-born American artist, sound art sculptor, and modern furniture designer. Bertoia was born in San Lorenzo, Pordenone, Italy. At age 15, given the opportunity to move to Detroit...he enrolled in Cass Technical High School, where he studied art and design and learned the skill of handmade jewelry making ca.1930-1936. At that time, there were three jewelry and metals teachers Louise Green, Mary Davis, and Greta Pack. In 1936 he attended the Art School of the Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts, now known as the College for Creative Studies. The following year in 1937 he received a scholarship to study at the internationally renowned Cranbrook Academy of Art where he encountered Walter Gropius, Edmund N. Bacon, Ray and Charles Eames, and Florence Knoll for the first time. In 2019, the Harry Bertoia Foundation launched a catalogue raisonné project, which seeks to document and research the diverse and extensive artistic practice of the artist. The goal is to provide a comprehensive record and resource of Bertoia's work, and will include his painting, graphics (including monotypes) , ...

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