John Piper in the Thirties

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.

ISBN 1858942233   Pages 192 ISBN13 9781858942230 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Merrell Publishers Ltd   Weight (grammes) 1302 Imprint Merrell Publishers Ltd   Published in London Format Hardback   Height (mm) 280 Publication date 26 Mar 2003   Width (mm) 240 Library of Congress ND   Spine width (mm) 21 DEWEY 759.2   Academic level General DEWEY edition DC22

		Foreword		6
		John Piper in the 1930s: Abstraction on the Beach by Frances Spalding		9
		Plates by David Fraser Jenkins		67
		Writings by John Piper		180
		Selected Bibliography and Picture Credits		189
		Index		190

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