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.
- ISBN13 9780995757301
- Publish Date 25 April 2019
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 15 June 2024
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Unicorn Publishing Group
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 3479
- Language English