Search results for "John Piper"
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“Linearity, an English Trait?”
2009
This article looks at how the « English line” became one of the defining features of Englishness from the 1920s to the 1950s. It is based on texts by Michael Ayrton, Robin Ironside, John Piper and Nikolaus Pevsner that were published during or just after the Second World War, and that contributed to a contemporary critical reassessment of English art.
Recension : David Fraser Jenkins, John Piper: The Forties (Londres: Philip Wilson publishers, 2000 / 2012) pour la revue Cercles.
2013
Compte-rendu d'ouvrage
So the Horizon Line Vanishes': Landscape and Abstraction in England from the 1930s to the 1950s
2010
This paper explores the tension between abstraction and figuration in English landscape painting from the 1930s to the 1950s, a transitional period marked by opposition between these two semiotic systems. The tension between tradition and new departure runs through the paintings and texts by John Piper and Peter Lanyon.
Recording Britain : John Piper et le patrimoine architectural anglais dans les années 1940
2016
This article is about the artist John Piper's participation in one of the programmes for the preservation of national heritage that were organised during the Second World War. It focuses on Piper's paintings and texts – notably the articles that he contributed to the Architectural Review – in order to illustrate the aesthetic controversy between modernism and tradition, abstraction and naturalism, which underpins the ambivalence of reconstruction.
The 1946 Production of The Fairy Queen in Covent Garden: 'A Triumph of British Music and Stagecraft'?
2006
This article examines the sets designed by John Piper for eight of Benjamin Britten's operas in the context of England's artistic and political post-war reconstruction. Piper created backdrops that found their logical conclusion in his stained-glass windows. They provide a sense of continuity whilst reflecting fundamental contradictions.