John Piper The Forties

by Jenkins, David Fraser

• ISBN13: 9780856675294
• ISBN10: 0856675296
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-05-02
• Publisher: Philip Wilson Publishers

Summary

This book re-examines the work of John Piper who, as well as being a prominent painter, printmaker and photographer, was an active figure in many cultural spheres during the 1940s when the foundations of his reputation were laid. The book brings together work that was officially commissioned during the Second World War and contextualises it with work from the pre-war and post-war years. All aspects of Piper's work during the fories are examined, including theatre designs, architectural paintings, the Recording Britain project, his work as a war artist, neo-Romanticism, and Welsh landscape painting towards the end of the decade. In addition, the book features Piper's writings and criticism, his designs for film posters and book jackets, photographs, exhibition catalogues, sketchbooks and manuscript letters.

Author Biography

David Fraser Jenkins is a senior curator at the Tate Gallery and an authority on Piper's works. He curated the Tate retrospective exhibition in 1988.

Table of Contents

Foreword	6	(1)
Introduction	7	(3)
Legacies	10	(10)
Precursors	20	(14)
In Transit, France	34	(14)
Theresienstadt	48	(14)
Ghetto	62	(10)
Auschwitz	72	(10)
Witness to Atrocity	82	(10)
Survivors	92	(10)
Art of Holocaust, a Reader	102	(2)
Artists' Biographies	104	(9)
Notes	113	(10)
Catalogue	123	(5)
List of Lenders and Photographic Credits	128