The Poetry of Meaning and Loss: The Glass Dresses of Karen LaMonte
by Arthur C. Danto

Karen LaMonte: Absence Adorned
by Juli Cho Bailer, Curator, Museum of Glass: International Center for Contemporary Art

Essays are from exhibition catalogue for Absence Adorned, a solo exhibition in 2005 at the Museum of Glass: International Center for Contemporary Art. ISBN 978-0-9726649-1-2, distributed by University of Washington Press http://www.washington.edu/uwpress

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Vestiges and visages: Glass dresses and mirrors reveal memories, dreams, reflections
The Prague Post
By Mimi Fronczak Rogers
Jan. 13, 2005

Image in article
Fluted Dress (Impression), 2004
Life size: 30 x 17 x 24 in
Cast glass

Celebrating the Flesh: Its Fullness, Its Frailties, Its Forbidden Secrets.
New York Times
By Grace Glueck.
December 5, 2003.

Image in article: Karen LaMonte's "Dress No. 8," of translucent cast glass, in the show "Corporal Identity - Body Language."
Photo: Gabriel Urbanek

Tina Oldknow is Curator of Modern Glass at the Coming Museum of Glass and the author of Pilchuck: A Glass School (1996) and other books, including Richard Marquis Objects (1997) and Dante Marioni: Blown Glass (2000).

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Brett Littman is an art critic based in New York City He is also Executive Director of Administration of Dieu Donne Papermill

Women of New York
Glass Magazine
By Victoria Milne
#16, Winter 1995, pp. 38-41

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