Lives Shaped by Steel: Celebrating East Coast Outdoor Metal Artists (2004)

by Nancy B. Zastrow

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Metal art can bring life to its surroundings. A gate or railing may so perfectly adorn a garden or building that the place would seem bare and ordinary without it. This book is about that kind of metal and the artists who dream it and create it. Interviews with over 40 artists tell how they started, what inspires them, and how they approach their work.… (more)

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2004

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To all the men and women who love and
labor with metal, and thereby keep the
age-old tradition of metalwork
alive and thriving into the 21st century

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Even though my husband has been a blacksmith since 1990, it was only a few years ago that transformative power in outdoor metal occurred to me. (Introduction)

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Metal art can bring life to its surroundings. A gate or railing may so perfectly adorn a garden or building that the place would seem bare and ordinary without it. This book is about that kind of metal and the artists who dream it and create it. Interviews with over 40 artists tell how they started, what inspires them, and how they approach their work.

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Includes artists from Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, New York, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Florida, Georgia and North Carolina, with a contact directory for most of them.

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