Piper in Print: John Piper’s Books, Periodicals, Ephemera and Textiles
- Artist: John Piper
- Published: 2010
- Publisher: Artists' Choice Editions, London
- Edition: First
- Format: Hardback Clothbound
- Height: 32cm
- Pages: 176
- Illustrations: Illustrated throughout in colour
£100.00
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Limited edition of 384 copies. Includes check-list and bibliography.
Filled with gorgeous Colour reproductions and Black and White photographs.
A beautiful celebration of John Piper's graphic work, filled with examples of his designs ranging from book and magazine covers to illustrations and advertisements. Noted as a "˜fine' artist, Piper nonetheless kept one foot firmly in the more commercial realm of graphics. His artistic ideas and energy percolated throughout his work, and this volume offers a series of fascinating essays exploring different aspects of his printed work.
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Artists Biography
(b Epsom, Surrey, 13 Dec 1903; d Henley-on-Thames, Oxon, 27 June 1992). English painter, printmaker, stage designer and writer. After a period as an articled clerk in his father’s law firm in London (1921–6) he attended Richmond School of Art (1926–7) and the Royal College of Art (1927–9), where he studied painting under Morris Kestelman (b 1905) and stained glass and lithography under Francis Spear. From 1931 to 1933 he showed paintings annually in the exhibitions of the London Group at the New Burlington Galleries, London, and in 1934 he was elected a member and shortly afterwards Secretary of the 7 & 5 Society. He was included in the 13th exhibition of the society at the Leicester Galleries in London, with such abstract constructions as String Solo (1934; priv. col., see 1983 exh. cat., p. 75). In the same year he met the English painter Myfanwy Evans, who was to become his wife in 1937 and his collaborator in his later stage work. His first abstract oil paintings, such as Abstract II (AC Eng), date from 1935, in which year he visited the studios of Brancusi, Arp and Jean Hélion in Paris, and of Alexander Calder at Varengeville.
