John Piper in the 1930s Abstraction on the Beach

JENKINS, David Fraser & SPALDING, Frances

ISBN 10: 1858942233 / ISBN 13: 9781858942230

Published by Merrell Publishers Ltd, 2003

About this Item

1st edition, 2003, published on the occasion of an exhibition at Dulwich Art Gallery. Colour illustrations. Very slight 'waviness' at top edge of pages, otherwise a bright, clean copy in firm binding Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: John Piper in the 1930s Abstraction on the Beach
• Publisher: Merrell Publishers Ltd
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1858942233
• ISBN 13: 9781858942230
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st edition.

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Synopsis

John Piper was one of the leading modernist artists of the twentieth century whose work was not only at the forefront of artistic developments but also appealed very directly to a wide public. Marking the centenary of Piper's birth in 1903, this book dramatically uncovers the various shifts in his early career while working largely on the south coast of England, from a lyrical painterly style and lively use of collage, inspired by Picasso and Braque, into pure abstraction, in keeping with international modernism. The second half of the 1930s saw the order and harmony of Piper's work unsettled by the onset of war, and with it a return to representation in an attempt to find a contemporary idiom with which to express his romantic love of the past. The tension between abstraction and realism in Piper's work of the period is engagingly told and stunningly illustrated, in this, the first in-depth exploration of the artist's formative years.