Download or read book John Piper s Brighton Aquatints written by Alan Powers and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-02 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ravilious in Pictures written by James Russell and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Ravilious in Pictures: The War Paintings' celebrates and commemorates the wartime career of Eric Ravilious, who died on active service in Iceland at the age of 39. One of a series of books, it creates a vivid portrait both of the artist himself and of life in wartime Britain.
Download or read book John Piper Myfanwy Piper written by Frances Spalding and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-09 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about a shared journey made by John and Myfanwy Piper who early on settled down in a small hamlet on the edge of the Chilterns, whence they proceeded to produce work which placed them centre stage in the cultural landscape of the twentieth century. Here, too, they fed andentertained many visitors, among them Kenneth Clark, John Betjeman, Osbert Lancaster, Benjamin Britten, and the Queen Mother. Their creative partnership encompasses not only a long marriage and numerous private and professional vicissitudes, but also a genuine legacy of lasting achievements in thevisual arts, literature and music. Frances Spalding also sheds new light on the story of British art in the 1930s. In the middle of this decade John Piper and Myfanwy Evans (they did not marry until 1937) were at the forefront of avant-garde activities in England, Myfanwy editing the most advanced art magazine of the day and Johnworking alongside Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, and others. But as the decade progressed and the political situation in Europe worsened, they changed their allegiances, John Piper investigating in his art a sense of place, belonging, history, memory, and the nature of nationalidentity, all issues that are very much to the fore in today's world. Myfanwy Piper is best known as "Golden Myfanwy", Betjeman's muse and for her work as librettist with Benjamin Britten. John Piper was an extraordinarily prolific artist in many media, his fertile career stretching over six decades and involving him in many changes of style. Having been an abstractpainter in the 1930s, he became best known for his landscapes and architectural scenes in a romantic style. This core interest, in the English and Welsh landscape and the built environment, developed in him a sensibility that took in almost everything, from gin palaces to painted quoins, from ruinedcottages to country houses, from Victorian shop fronts to what is nowadays called industrial archeology. His capacious and divided sensibility made him defender of many aspects of the English landscape and the built environment, while in his art he became an heir of that great tradition encompassingWordsworth and Blake, Turner, Ruskin, and Samuel Palmer. He was torn between the pleasures of an abstract language liberated from time and place and those embedded in the locale, in buildings, geography, and history. Today, this expansive contradictoriness seems quintessentially modern, his dividedresponse finding an echo in our own ambivalence towards modernity. Both Pipers created what seemed to many observers an ideal way of life, involving children, friendships, good food, humour, the pleasures of a garden, work, and creativity. Running through their lives is a fertile tension between a commitment to the new and a desire to reinvigorate certain nativetraditions. This tension produced work that is passionate and experimental. "Only those who live most vividly in the present", John Russell observed of John and Myfanwy Piper, "deserve to inherit the past".
Download or read book A Century of Artists Books written by Riva Castleman and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 1997-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to accompany the 1994 exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, this book constitutes the most extensive survey of modern illustrated books to be offered in many years. Work by artists from Pierre Bonnard to Barbara Kruger and writers from Guillaume Apollinarie to Susan Sontag. An importnt reference for collectors and connoisseurs. Includes notable works by Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso.
Download or read book John Piper written by Glenn Sujo and published by Philip Wilson Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book re-examines the work of John Piper who, as well as being a prominent painter, printmaker and photographer, was an active figure in many cultural spheres during the 1940s when the foundations of his reputation were laid. It brings together work that was officially commissioned during the Second World War and contextualises it with work from the pre-war and post-war years. All aspects of Piper's work during the forties are examined.
Download or read book Buildings and Prospects written by John Piper and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book John Piper Paintings and Watercolors written by John Piper and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Art and Identity in Scotland written by Viccy Coltman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively and erudite cultural history of Scotland, from the Jacobite defeat of 1745 to the death of an icon, Sir Walter Scott, in 1832, examines how Scottish identity was experienced and represented in novel ways. Weaving together previously unpublished archival materials, visual and material culture, dress and textile history, Viccy Coltman re-evaluates the standard clichés and essentialist interpretations which still inhibit Scottish cultural history during this period of British and imperial expansion. The book incorporates familiar landmarks in Scottish history, such as the visit of George IV to Edinburgh in August 1822, with microhistories of individuals, including George Steuart, a London-based architect, and the East India Company servant, Claud Alexander. It thus highlights recurrent themes within a range of historical disciplines, and by confronting the broader questions of Scotland's relations with the rest of the British state it makes a necessary contribution to contemporary concerns.
Download or read book Retrospective Exhibition John Piper March 1964 Marlborough New London Gallery London Marlborough Fine Arts Limited London Marlborough Gerson Gallery Inc New York Marlborough Galleria D arte Rome written by Marlborough New London Gallery and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Arts Council of Great Britain written by Eric Walter White and published by London : Davis-Poynter. This book was released on 1975 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book John Piper in the 1930s written by David Fraser Jenkins and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Piper was one of the leading Modernist artists of the twentieth century. This in-depth study covers the years of his early career, when he was largely working on the south coast of England. His engagement with the work of Picasso and Braque, his response to the onset of war, and the resulting tension between abstraction and realism in his painting are engagingly explored.
Download or read book Piper s Places written by Richard Ingrams and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than sixty years John Piper has painted, drawn, photographed and recorde his impressions of the landscapes and buildings of the British Isles. HIs interest in the natural order has ranged from the gentle, adapted landscape of Romney Marsh to the rocky wilderness of Snowdonia. His passion for buildings extends from the palladian country house to the cottage built in the vernacular, from an ornate Somerset church tower to the dusty clutter of a vestry. This association with topographical subjects has been sustained by many years work on the Shell Guides to the English and Welsh counties. The Guides, of which he was co-editor with John Betjeman and subsequently sole editor, financed, as Anthony West has put it, 'an exploration and penetration of the English and Welsh scene of an intensity and range which few artists have been able to undertake'. This book presents for the first time in one volume the range of John Piper's topographical work in the British Isles. Richard Ingrams, who has walked over and written about much of the country recorded by Piper himself, tells the story, with engaging and very appropriate informality, of the latter's life with the landscape, natural and created, of Britain; the influences on this aspect of his work; and the people who have joined him in it, including John Betjeman, J. M. Richards and Geoffrey Grigson. The text is enhanced by Piper's own reflections, some occasioned by the book itself others drawn from working notebooks, diaries and articles. The illustrations reproduce aquatints, drawings, collages, oil paintings and watercolours. Some of these paintings have been specially painted for the book, and many more are reproduced here for the first time. Piper's Places invites those who read it and look at its illustrations to observe afresh the British landscape through the eyes of the person who has done more to celebrate it than any artist since Turner.
Download or read book The Visual Dictionary of Illustration written by Mark Wigan and published by AVA Publishing. This book was released on 2009-06-18 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revealing guide to the numerous terms associated with the art of illustration. The book has been designed for art students, aspiring and professional illustrators and all those interested in this constantly evolving discipline.--Publisher.
Download or read book Ealing Revisited written by Mark Duguid and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-31 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ealing Revisited provides a major reappraisal of one of British cinema's best-loved institutions, Ealing Studios. During its heyday, Ealing produced a string of classic comedies, including Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) and The Ladykillers (1955), but there is much more to Ealing than these films, as this volume of new writing on the studio shows. Addressing both known and less familiar aspects of Ealing's story, its films, actors and technicians, the contributors uncover what has gone unexplored, or unspoken, in previous histories of the studio, and consider the impact that Ealing has had on British cultural life from the 1930s to the present. Listed in the Independent on Sunday's Cinema books of 2012 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/ios-books-of-the-year-2012-cinema-8373713.html
Download or read book Catalogue s of Engravings Etchings Lithographs Prints Woodcuts Etc written by Sotheby & Co. (London, England) and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalog of the Library of the Museum of Modern Art Pat written by Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.). Library and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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