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The 1946 production of The Fairy Queen in Covent Garden: 'A Triumph of British music and Stagecraft'?
2013
The 1946 production of Henry Purcell's Fairy Queen in Covent Garden was staged to mark the beginning of a new musical era. It was based on the unity of music, ballet and design, the symbol of an ideal social cohesion notably fostered by state patronage, and the partnership between Constant Lambert, Michael Ayrton and Frédérick Ashton was informed by the aesthetic agenda of the Romantic Moderns. However the failure to convey a successful sense of harmony reflects the tensions inherent to this transitional period.
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.