Peace Now

Artist Marvin B. Lipofsky (American, 1938-2016)

Date1968

DimensionsH: 6 in. (15.2 cm); L: 10 1/8 in. (25.7 cm); W: 9 11/16 in. (24.6 cm)

MediumGlass, free blown, sandblasted, with copper blue luster; copper-plated arm

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number

1968.82

Not on View

Description

Label TextThe young Berkeley professor Marvin Lipofsky, who believed that “glass really was funky—glass itself, making glass,” created in the late 1960s and early 1970s work that was often politically charged. Peace Now, with its multiple bulbous shapes that are inherent in blown glass, was inscribed with an appeal that referenced the escalation of the Viet Nam war. The sculpture explored two new surface effects which Lipofsky had learned through the cross-disciplinary fertilization that was encouraged at Berkeley: mirroring and copper-plating on glass, processes that imparted the effect of a solid cubic mass to the work, while creating a strong contrast between its reflective qualities and dark, rough coating.Published References"Acquisitions," Craft Horizons, vol. 28, no. 6, Nov./Dec. 1968, p. 4.

Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Glass, A Guide to the Glass Collections, Toledo, 1969, repr. p. 138.

Gunther, Charles F., "How glass is made," Toledo Museum News, New Series: vol. 15, no. 1, repr. p. 20.

Page, Jutta-Annette, Peter Morrin, and Robert Bell, Color Ignited: Glass 1962-2012, Toledo, OH, 2012, p. 33, repr. (col.) p. 39, pl. 16.

Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Toledo Glass National II, Oct. 20- Nov. 17, 1968, repr. p. 11.

Toledo Museum of Art, Color Ignited: Glass 1962-2012, June 14-September 9, 2012.