Description
| Product ID: | 9781848225602 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Northern Lights |
| Title: | Henry Holiday |
| Subtitle: | His Stained-Glass Windows for Gilded-Age New York |
| Authors: | Author: George B. Bryant |
| Page Count: | 328 |
| Subjects: | History of art, Art & design styles: Arts & Crafts style, Ceramics, mosaic and glass: artworks, Architecture: religious buildings, Stained glass: artworks, Religious buildings, New York |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating HenryHoliday (1839–1927) was a polymath who counted figures such as Lewis Carroll,William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and Emmeline Pankhurst as his friends. Mostsignificantly, he was unquestionably one of the greatest stained-glass artistsof the Victorian-Edwardian period, yet his considerable achievements have not received the recognition that they deserve. Taking Holiday’s commissions for New York State churches as itsfocus, George Bryant’s ground-breaking study places the artist’s transatlanticaccomplishments in the context of the social, artistic, religious and economicshifts that shaped his success in the US during America’s Gilded Age – a periodwhere existing social hierarchies were challenged by new money and European immigration that ended with the outbreak of the First World War. Alsoproviding a clear understanding of the technical and aesthetic differences thatset Holiday's stained glass apart from that of his contemporaries such asEdward Burne-Jones, La Farge, and Tiffany, Bryant's truly original publication, based on substantial archivalresearch, makes a significant contribution to our understanding ofnineteenth-century stained-glass design and Henry Holiday's important achievements. |
| Imprint Name: | Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-03-31 |
