AXIS No.8 Winter 1937 (1st Edition)
First edition of the 8th and final issue of AXIS A Quarterly Review of Contemporary Abstract Painting & Sculpture. This issue is of particular significance for its inclusion of an article by John Piper entitled “Prehistory form the Air”.
“This article typifies the heady mix of cosmopolitanism and an antiquarian interest in the ancient history of the British Isles pursued by a number of artists in the Axis circle. Piper juxtaposes an eighteenth-century engraving of Silbury Hill in Wiltshire, an aerial photograph of the same site, and an abstract painting by Joan Miro. For Piper, flying rendered the landscape abstract “Flying (whether we do it ourselves or not)”, reads the first sentence of the article, “has changed our sense of space and forms and vistas enormously. From the air, hills flatten out and towns are seen at a glance in the sense or nonsense of their planning.” (Ref. below)
Myfanwy Evans (Ed.) with contributions to this issue by Anthony West, Robert Medley, Kenneth R. Walsh, John Piper and others. With discussion and reproductions of works by Paul Nash, Joan Miró, Alexander Calder.Fernand Léger, Barbara Hepworth, Ceri Richards and others.
Title: AXIS A Quarterly Review of Contemporary Abstract Painting & Sculpture
Author: Myfanwy Evans (Ed.) with contributions to this issue by Anthony West, Robert Medley, Kenneth R. Walsh, John Piper and others
Publication date: Winter 1937
Format: Softcover
Pages: 31pp.
Images: 25 monochrome images and 2 colour images
Condition: Very Good
Stock Number: RB01930
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Reference: Sarah Victoria Turner, Modern Art and Publishing between 1935 and 1955: The Peter & Renate Nahum Gift, published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name held at The Paul Mellon Centre, London, 23 September 2019 – 17 January 2020. Read the publication on ISSU here
First edition of the 8th and final issue of AXIS A Quarterly Review of Contemporary Abstract Painting & Sculpture. This issue is of particular significance for its inclusion of an article by John Piper entitled “Prehistory form the Air”.
“This article typifies the heady mix of cosmopolitanism and an antiquarian interest in the ancient history of the British Isles pursued by a number of artists in the Axis circle. Piper juxtaposes an eighteenth-century engraving of Silbury Hill in Wiltshire, an aerial photograph of the same site, and an abstract painting by Joan Miro. For Piper, flying rendered the landscape abstract “Flying (whether we do it ourselves or not)”, reads the first sentence of the article, “has changed our sense of space and forms and vistas enormously. From the air, hills flatten out and towns are seen at a glance in the sense or nonsense of their planning.” (Ref. below)
Myfanwy Evans (Ed.) with contributions to this issue by Anthony West, Robert Medley, Kenneth R. Walsh, John Piper and others. With discussion and reproductions of works by Paul Nash, Joan Miró, Alexander Calder.Fernand Léger, Barbara Hepworth, Ceri Richards and others.
Title: AXIS A Quarterly Review of Contemporary Abstract Painting & Sculpture
Author: Myfanwy Evans (Ed.) with contributions to this issue by Anthony West, Robert Medley, Kenneth R. Walsh, John Piper and others
Publication date: Winter 1937
Format: Softcover
Pages: 31pp.
Images: 25 monochrome images and 2 colour images
Condition: Very Good
Stock Number: RB01930
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Reference: Sarah Victoria Turner, Modern Art and Publishing between 1935 and 1955: The Peter & Renate Nahum Gift, published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name held at The Paul Mellon Centre, London, 23 September 2019 – 17 January 2020. Read the publication on ISSU here
First edition of the 8th and final issue of AXIS A Quarterly Review of Contemporary Abstract Painting & Sculpture. This issue is of particular significance for its inclusion of an article by John Piper entitled “Prehistory form the Air”.
“This article typifies the heady mix of cosmopolitanism and an antiquarian interest in the ancient history of the British Isles pursued by a number of artists in the Axis circle. Piper juxtaposes an eighteenth-century engraving of Silbury Hill in Wiltshire, an aerial photograph of the same site, and an abstract painting by Joan Miro. For Piper, flying rendered the landscape abstract “Flying (whether we do it ourselves or not)”, reads the first sentence of the article, “has changed our sense of space and forms and vistas enormously. From the air, hills flatten out and towns are seen at a glance in the sense or nonsense of their planning.” (Ref. below)
Myfanwy Evans (Ed.) with contributions to this issue by Anthony West, Robert Medley, Kenneth R. Walsh, John Piper and others. With discussion and reproductions of works by Paul Nash, Joan Miró, Alexander Calder.Fernand Léger, Barbara Hepworth, Ceri Richards and others.
Title: AXIS A Quarterly Review of Contemporary Abstract Painting & Sculpture
Author: Myfanwy Evans (Ed.) with contributions to this issue by Anthony West, Robert Medley, Kenneth R. Walsh, John Piper and others
Publication date: Winter 1937
Format: Softcover
Pages: 31pp.
Images: 25 monochrome images and 2 colour images
Condition: Very Good
Stock Number: RB01930
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Reference: Sarah Victoria Turner, Modern Art and Publishing between 1935 and 1955: The Peter & Renate Nahum Gift, published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name held at The Paul Mellon Centre, London, 23 September 2019 – 17 January 2020. Read the publication on ISSU here
