Excerpted from the original Japanese

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    Heller's "Glass America" is always a mixed bag, but then American glass is, too. Each January the Heller brothers present a large group show in their Soho gallery. …

A totally different approach to the figure was Karen LaMonte's Italiante "puppets." Blown using Venetian decorative techniques and recalling glass figurines made for the tourist crowd, the best designed by Bianconi in the 1950s, LaMonte's figures have a crude exuberance that is appealing. With plenty of glass training from the Rhode Island School of Design; Parson School of Design classes taught at the New York Experimental Glass Workshop; Pilchuck and Penland summer schools, this stance is a deliberate aesthetic choice.

 

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