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• Title:The art of John Piper / David Fraser Jenkins and Hugh Fowler Wright ; foreword by Luke Piper.
  
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• Author/Creator:Piper, John, 1903-1992, artist.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Jenkins, David Fraser, writer of added commentary.
  Fowler-Wright, Hugh, 1959- writer of added commentary.
  Piper, Luke, writer of foreword.
  Portland Gallery (London, England), issuing body.
  
• Published/Created:London : Unicorn ; Portland Gallery, [2016]
  ©2016
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: N6797.P56 A4 2015
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Piper, John, 1903-1992.
  Piper, John, 1903-1992--Catalogues raisonnés.
  
• Genre/Form:Catalogues raisonnés.
  Illustrated works.
  
• Description:472 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm
  
• Summary:The first published survey of the whole of John Piper's art throughout his long life; the book includes not just his painting and printmaking, but his stained glass and opera designs. It was begun in collaboration with the artist and his wife Myfanwy and has continued with the encouragement of the Piper family. Piper was a major artist of the twentieth century. He was a pioneer of modern abstract art in Britain in the 1930s, the painter of the ruins of the Blitz in Coventry, London and Bath, of the Ruskinian beauty and loneliness of the summits and panoramas of Snowdonia, the designer of nine of the first productions of the operas and a ballet by Benjamin Britten. Piper was also a great landscape painter of rural churches in Britain, a pioneer of lithography and screenprinting and of colour in ceramics. Finally, he was the designer of the stained glass the great cathedrals and churches of Coventry, Eton College and Plymouth and of smaller commemorative glass in country churches. Piper is described here as committed to sharing his art, taking on the technical challenge of introducing modern painting to traditional craft practice and to a generous acceptance of continuous change.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
  
• ISBN:9781910787052 (cloth)
  1910787051 (cloth)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: ch. One Epsom 1903
  1927
  ch. Two Betchworth March 1927
  June 1934
  ch. Three Myfanwy Evans and AXIS June 1934
  June 1937
  ch. Four Romantic Style July 1937
  1941
  ch. Five Neo-Romanticism 7947
  45
  ch. Six Wales and Britten 1945
  53
  ch. Seven Colours for Glass 1952
  55
  ch. Eight Landscapes in France and Italy 1955
  63
  ch. Nine Marlborough Years · 1 1963
  66
  ch. Ten Marlborough Years · 2 1967
  82
  ch. Eleven Retrospective Exhibitions, Last Landscapes and Flower Paintings 1983
  92.