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The Color of Light:
Commissioning Stained Glass for a ChurchBy Sarah Hall
Mediating light, intensifying it, softening it, fracturing it into a myriad of colors, stained glass windows are a part of the intricate fabric of church architecture. For more than a thousand years, people have expected churches to contain and celebrate this ancient art form. But when faced with the awesome responsibility of providing stained glass for a church—whether in a new building or an old one—where do you turn for advice? In this wonderful new book, stained glass artist Sarah Hall provides a simple and complete guide to stained glass in a church building for architects, building and renovation committees, pastors, liturgical designers, consultants and anyone who appreciates the beauty of stained glass.
The Color of Light will help you or those you work with to learn more about the materials, processes and techniques used to create stained glass; to appreciate quality in its art, design and manufacture; to effectively communicate your goals and desires for a stained glass project; to manage a full-scale stained glass project from planning through installation. You’ll also find a brief history of the use of stained glass, an explanation of how stained glass creates a fitting place for liturgy, and 90 full-color photographs celebrating this beautiful, ancient art form.
Paperback, 8 1/2 x 11, 101 pages.
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Reviews
How do you bring a fresh perspective to a 1500-year-old saint who has been portrayed in thousands of artworks? This was the question faced by glass artist Sarah Hall, and her creative response will......
With the dying down of the Millennium fever, now is a good time to review a book on the commissioning of stained glass. Sarah Hall, a Canadian stained glass artist, has written a 100-page A4 book,......
After many years of completing numerous commissions in public buildings and churches across North America, Sarah Hall shares the lessons of her trials and successes. As she says in her......
This is not the sort of book usually reviewed in this journal, but it seems to me to be noteworthy for VAN readers both it its own right and also for a number of issues that it raises. Published by......
If you were appointed to the windows committee for a new church, a search of your library shelves for guidance on the commissioning of stained glass would likely be in vain. Until now little has......
When she was nine years old, Sarah Hall's father joined the restoration committee at their parish church. Every weekend,
Sarah accompanied her father on trips to other churches where they hoped to......
The artist, the priest, his parishioner and her committee: it sounds like a combination surreal enough for a Peter Greenaway film. Yet these are just the people who have to achieve a meeting of......
At last someone has taken the initiative to smooth the lines of communication between the stained glass artist and the client. With Sarah Hall's new book, The Color of Light: Commissioning Stained......
To the religious person, everything is religious. God can be sensed, discerned and found in all created things. God's first words in creation were: "Let there be light." Since then, all the things......
Sarah Hall's biographical material states "I fell in love with stained glass when I was a kid, at the age of nine". This life-long passion for stained glass shows throughout this book which
she......
