Research Catalog

Title

Glory, azure and gold : the stained-glass windows of Thomas Denny / Mark Cazalet [and eleven others] ; with a foreword by The Very Reverend Michael Tavinor, Dean of Hereford ; an introduction by Patrick Reyntiens ; and photographs by James O. Davies and Rebecca Lane ; edited by Antonia Johnson and Josie Reed..

Publication

• London : Reed Contemporary Books, in association with Lund Humphries, 2016.
• ©2016

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Additional Authors

• Johnson, Antonia
• Denny, Tom, 1956-
• Reed, Josie
• Cazalet, Mark, 1964-
• Davies, James O.
• Lane, Rebecca
• Lund Humphries, associated with work.

Description

104 pages : color illustrations; 31 cm

Summary

This is the first book to be published on the stained-glass art of Thomas Denny. While his name is known mainly within ecclesiastical and glass-making circles, it is likely that Denny's art is instantly recognisable to a great many more. His radiant windows in Gloucester, Durham and Hereford Cathedrals and in many churches and chapels around the UK are arguably some of the art world's best-kept secrets. Denny (b. 1956) originally studied painting at Edinburgh College of Art and has translated this painterly experience into a uniquely expressive style of stained glass. His works combine the aesthetic invention of modern British forbears such as John Piper with subtle reference to the medieval and ancient past. Including eleven heartfelt essays as well as poetry and the artist's own testimony, which explore and explain the subject matter, techniques and dazzling effect of Denny's craft, this book will be of interest to members of the thriving community of contemporary glass-makers as well as anyone who has seen and been moved by his work.

Subjects

• Stained glass windows > Great Britain
• Denny, Tom, 1956- > Criticism and interpretation

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• "First published in 2015 as Glory, azure and gold : 12 stained-glass windows by Thomas Denny by Reed Contemporary Books in a limited edition of 125 copies." - t.p. verso

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Foreword / Michael Tavinor -- Introduction / Patrick Reyntiens -- Gloucester Cathedral, the Chapel of St. Thomas / Pamela Tudor-Craig -- St. Edburga's Church, Leigh and St. Peter's Church, Martley / Chloë Reddaway -- All Saints' Church, Bolton Percy, the millennium window / Ann Wroe -- Tewkesbury Abbey, two windows / William Packer -- Priory Church, Great Malvern, the millennium windows / John Julius Norwich -- Hereford Cathedral, the Thomas Traherne windows / Christopher Gibbs -- Durham Cathedral, the transfiguration window / Roger Wagner -- St. Michael's Church, Abenhall, the free miners' window / Jane Ridley -- St. Paul's Church, Shurdington, two memorial windows / Mark Cazalet -- Gloucester Cathedral, the Ivor Gurney windows / Emma Crichton-Miller -- Gloucester Cathedral, the Gerald Finzi windows, and All Saints Church, Woodford / Chris de Souza -- St. Catharine's College Chapel, Cambridge, the wisdom window / Rowan Williams -- Stained-glass windows by Thomas Denny.

ISBN

• 1848222289
• 9781848222281

OCLC

• ocn956396044
• 956396044
• SCSB-8969500

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library