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Wilhelmina Geddes - Life and Work (Hardcover)
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Wilhelmina Geddes - Life and Work (Hardcover)
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When she died in 1955, Geddes was described as 'the greatest
stained glass artist of our time' whose monumental directness of
treatment (whatever the scale) constituted 'a revival of the
mediaeval genius'. Yet a full appreciation of her powerful
figurative art was limited to a relative few. Although critics
praised the deeply spiritual and uncompromising skill of her
craftsmanship - 'Nowhere in modern glass is there a more striking
example of a courageous adventure in the medium' (her 1919 Duke of
Connaught War Memorial in Ottawa), her 'power of simplifying
without loss of meaning' (her great Wallsend Crucifixion window of
1922), and 'the fine sensibility and deep intelligence' of her
majestic 64-light Te Deum rose window to the king of the Belgians
(1934-8) - her often out-of-the-way windows need to be seen in
situ. Battling with ill health, like her better-known pupil and
contemporary, Evie Hone, she became a major figure in the Irish
Arts and Crafts movement and 20th-century British stained glass
revival, a medieval-modernist of rare intellect, skill and
aesthetic integrity. This profusely illustrated contextual study of
her life and work draws on hitherto unpublished primary sources to
represent her unique artistic achievement during the turbulence of
two world wars.
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