The artistic revolutions in glasswork over the last 150 years - from the Arts and Crafts Movement to Art Nouveau and Art Deco - are illuminated and analysed in this compendium of art glass. Historically innovative methods of working in the glass medium are noted, as are the artists who created them. Among the artists given particularly detailed treatment are John La Farge, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Henri Matisse, and Marc Chagall.