Main entry:

Spalding, Frances, 1950-

Title & Author:

John Piper, Myfanwy Piper : lives in art / Frances Spalding.

Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Description:

xxvi, 598 pages, 58 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 557-563) and index.
John -- 'That's painting!' -- Stained glass and coastal gaiety -- Orchard's angel -- Going modern -- Axis -- Abstract and concrete -- 'Look, stranger, at this island now' -- Not playboys but agents : 1937-8 -- Decrepit glory, pleasing decay : 1938-9 -- 'The weather in our souls' : 1939-40 -- Fawley Bum -- War artist -- Stormy weather -- Renishaw and the Sitwells -- Topographical mania -- Sly liaisons -- Stern watching, mysterious sympathy -- Return to peace -- Working for the stage and with Britten -- 'A firm shape among shadows' -- Cranko and Britten -- The turn of the screw -- Delegated art -- Coventry and cranks -- Ambiguous Venice -- Dark glasses at Evensong -- Sacred or superstitious? -- Owen Wingrave -- Shell guides -- Pottery, tapestries, fireworks, and photographs -- Death in Venice -- Deaths and entrances -- English garden -- Myfanwy.

Summary:

A biography of John Piper, one of the best loved and capacious English artists, and his wife the librettist Myfanwy Piper, friend of and collaborator with Benjamin Britten. Together they were at the heart of art, architecture, opera, and reshaping the perception of 'Englishness' in the mid-20th century.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

9780199567614 (hbk.)
0199567611 (hbk.)

Subject:

Piper, John, 1903-1992.
Piper, Myfanwy.
Piper, John, 1903-1992 Friends and associates.
Piper, Myfanwy Friends and associates.
Piper, John 1903-1992
Piper, Myfanwy 1911-1997
Piper, John.
Artists Great Britain Biography.
Women librettists Wales Biography.
Librettists Wales Biography.
Femmes librettistes Pays de Galles Biographies.
Librettistes Pays de Galles Biographies.
Artists
Friendship
Intellectual life
Librettists
Women librettists
Great Britain Intellectual life 20th century.
Grande-Bretagne Vie intellectuelle 20e siècle.
Great Britain
Wales

Form/genre:

Biographie.
Biographies.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 268768
Call No.: BIB 200633
Status: Available