The African Dream: Visions of Love and Sorrow : The Art of John Muafangejo

Arts & Photography

Levinson, Orde

Individual Artists

Thames&Hudson

Very slightest of wear to the dust jacket, pages nice and clean, no writing or highlighting. A very nice copy. All our books are individually inspected, rated and described. Never EX-LIB unless specifically listed as such.

John Piper: The Complete Graphic Works : A Catalog Raisonne, 1923-1983

PIPER, John

Graphic Design

Faber&Faber

<p>"John Piper (1903-92) was unquestionably one of the most versatile British artists of the twentieth century. A great admirer of Picasso, he was at the cutting edge of many elements of the British art scene." "Although best known for his paintings, Piper has achieved the highest respect for his works in stained glass and ceramics, his stage, set and costume designs, art-critical writings, and his large corpus of prints. The prints are innovative, lively and continuously challenge the medium." "This book is the first catalogue of Piper's entire graphic work to be published, and completes the record started by Orde Levinson's 1987 catalogue raissone of Piper's prints. This new updated catalogue incorporates prints produced between 1987 and Piper's death in 1992, as well as newly discovered earlier prints. All works are illustrated (with all colour works reproduced in colour), and the corpus of prints includes etchings, aquatints, wood engravings, lithographs and screenprints." "In order to show the importance of the prints in the wider context of Piper's life and work, Order Levinson has included a short essay on Piper's prints; biographical notes; and lists of Piper's designs for stage sets, stained glass and tapestries, which often relate to his prints. The reference material is now certainly the most comprehensive ever compiled on Piper, and allows the reader to survey the development of his artistic concerns." "This is the definitive study of the prints of John Piper, and will enable all readers to appreciate his mastery anew."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved</p>

Quality & Experiment: The Prints of John Piper (1903-92)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

Lund Humphries Pub Ltd

<p>John Piper was one the most articulate and interesting artists, known for his simple but perceptive language, his breadth and vision and integrity as an artist and who lived through changing and evolving art times and movements - 1903-1992. The Complete Writings of John Piper offers for the first time a comprehensive range of views of one of the greatest and most varied (like Picasso in diversity and quality) British painters of the 20th Century. It includes all his writings, and provides a remarkable, vivid and uniquely personal and erudite view of the human controversies, art movements, concerns and exhibitions in literary and artistic circles, and by an author whose integrity and intelligence, development and thoughtfulness, despite the hostility of others, remained true and unique to his own inner voice. The writings show, from major works like the books and seminal writings all the way to simple prefaces, how deeply Piper looked, cared and thought about what he was writing. For anyone interested in the arts across the broadest spectrum from theatre design, to stained glass, to music, to literature, to art politics, from marijuana to the death penalty, from abstraction to romanticism, from what it is to be an artist and true to oneself and resist commercial pressure, to the Royal Academy and to publishing its all here. Furthermore Piper wrote as he painted, to share. As he said anything that is to be kept as a secret is not worth keeping. A monumental undertaking over many years these ten volumes are for anyone interested in the 20th Century and in being an artist.</p>

Hitting the Nail on the Head: The Complete Writings of John Piper

Unicorn Publishing Group

This is an expanded and revised edition of Orde Levinson's definitive catalogue raisonne of the prints of John Piper: an essential reference book for collectors, curators, prints specialists and art historians, and an invaluable visual resource for all those with an interest in Piper's prolific and varied printmaking output. John Piper (1903-92) was one of the most versatile and interesting British artists of the twentieth century and was at the cutting edge of many elements of the British art scene. Although best known for his paintings, Piper has achieved the highest respect for his works in stained glass and ceramics, his stage, set and costume designs, art-critical writings, and his large corpus of prints. The prints are innovative, lively and continuously challenge the medium. First published in 1987, and reissued with a complete prints catalogue in 1996 following Piper's death, the book has been thoroughly updated for this new edition, incorporating a new essay by David Fraser Jenkins on Piper's extraordinary experimental prints of the mid-1960s; a new Introduction by Orde Levinson; an up-to-date Bibliography and expanded lists of Designs, Exhibitions, Illustrations and Public Collections; unseen archival photographs; and a completely updated page-design, as well as the standard indexes of prints, portfolios, printers and publishers, and incorrect titles. All catalogued prints are illustrated (with all colour works reproduced in colour), and the corpus of prints includes etchings, aquatints, wood engravings, lithographs and screenprints. The reference material is now certainly the most comprehensive ever compiled on Piper, and allows the reader to survey the development of his artistic concerns, interests and work. 'A compendium of great usefulness, and an important building block in the structuring of John's reputation' (Frances Spalding, 2009) 'Orde's editing has been meticulous in execution and inexhaustable in research. It is, however, not only a work of scholarship but one of enthusiasm and love' (Myfanwy Piper, 1996)

The Prints of John Piper: Quality and Experiment: A Catalogue Raisonné 1923-91

History & Criticism

Lund Humphries

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