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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent unused condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The first published survey of the whole of John Piper’s art throughout his long life the book includes not just his painting and printmaking but also his stained glass and opera designs. It was begun in collaboration with the artist and his wife Myfanwy and has continued with the encouragement of the Piper family. Piper was a major artist of the twentieth century. He was a pioneer of modern abstract art in Britain in the 1930s the painter of the ruins of the Blitz in Coventry London and Bath of the Ruskinian beauty and loneliness of the summits and panoramas of Snowdonia the designer of nine of the first productions of the operas and a ballet by Benjamin Britten. Piper was also a great landscape painter of rural churches in Britain a pioneer of lithography and screenprinting and of colour in ceramics. Additionally he was the designer of stained glass in the great cathedrals and churches of Coventry Liverpool Eton College and Plymouth and of smaller commemorative glass in country churches. Piper is described here as being committed to sharing his art taking on the technical challenge of introducing modern painting to traditional craft practice and to a generous acceptance of continuous change. (OS)