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| Title: | Stained Glass Windows
: of Canterbury, New Zealand |
| Author: | Fiona Ciaran |
| ISBN: | 1877133396 : 9781877133398 |
| Illustrations: | colour photos |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 210x290mm |
| Pages: | 240 |
| Weight: | .882 Kg. |
| Published: | University of Otago Press - January 1998 |
| List Price: | 27.5 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Stained glass |
This book is the world's first scholarly account of any region's nineteenth and twentieth-century stained glass, and is written by one of the few specialists trained in the field. The author presents a comprehensive catalogue of the 711 ecclesiastical stained glass windows in Canterbury, many of which are of international significance. She shows the shift from imported to local work, the development of New Zealand imagery, and how stained glass windows can be powerful social indicators. She argues that stained glass in Canterbury not only represents the most important regional collection of windows in New Zealand, but that the exportation of nineteenth and twentieth-century stained glass from Britain is represented in microcosm in Canterbury, thus necessitating a reappraisal of the history of British stained glass. The book also presents much new information about British stained glass artists, and is of great relevance to any country with glass from Britain.
