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Publisher:La Baconnière/Arts Publication date: May 2008 Format: Beautiful Book Dimensions:32.5 x 25 x 3.5 cm Pages:398 pages If, in medicine, salt and water are essential for the body, light and water make up the conditions of life. How then can we be surprised that the art of light in stained glass awakens so many emotions, perhaps more than music? And therefore is used to communicate. The history of stained glass in Geneva, as told in this book, merges with the history of the city and the region. Thus, the stained glass window, a vector of affirmation of faith and religion, a polemical argument, becomes a witness and actor of political mutations. "Emotion(s) in Light" highlights this specificity and develops its political and artistic consequences. Over the centuries, it aroused the emulation of local craftsmen and the attraction of artists from all over Europe, called or coming according to the tradition of the refuge of Geneva. The evolution of the art of glassmaking in originality, renewal and techniques, is spread out in Geneva, supported by the controversy of the image. Its exceptional heritage represents an incomparable art gallery, in religious places and in civil buildings. It illuminates buildings and schools as well as oratories, churches and temples, arousing curiosity and emotion(s). The reader discovers here a firework of diversity through the 900 color illustrations in 400 pages in the format of the Corpus Vitrearum medii aevi international. The scholar will enjoy the complete catalog raisonné of the major period from 1830 to 1945. It includes three historical chapters, complemented by a panorama of contemporary creation, and chapters on collecting and conservation techniques. A generous bibliography and indexes facilitate research.