The Pavilion: A Contemporary Collection of British Art and Architecture. Edited by Myfanwy Evans 1946
In 1946 Myfanwy Evans published the first number of The Pavilion, a contemporary collection of British art and architecture. Pavilion intended `in a series of volumes, to mix the unknown with the accepted, the past with the present” and to avoid connoisseurship. It included a selection of contemporary views on art and architecture, theatre and galleries, including: Wyndham Lewis “Towards an Earth Culture”; English Stained Glass – details in colour ; John Betjeman “Francis Johnson , Irish Architect” ; Edward Bawden “Snails for All” ; Anthony West “A Round of Visits – Arles and Vezalay” ; Robert Medley – “The Designer in the Theatre and Some Reproductions” ; Seven Drawings – Edward Burra , Cecil Collins, Robert Colquhoun, Evie Hone , Robert Medley , Ceri Richards, John Ruskin “Outspokenness” 1874, Geoffrey Grigson on Birmingham Art Gallery.
The Pavilion, and earlier titles edited by Evans ( including Axis and The Painter’s Object) are significant documents in the history of abstract art in Britain in the first half of the twentieth-century. Intended as a series, but with this the only issue ever published, Pavilion continued Evans’ interest in looking beyond the constraints of the type of abstraction practiced by artists’s associated with British constructivism. Rather than regression and compromise (criticisms also levelled at the focus on history and popular in Axis) Pavilion’s non-conformist position to the dominant programme of non-figurative abstraction, signified Evans’ conviction that resistance to that idealism was the only means by which an authentic English modem art practice might be developed.
Title: The Pavilion. A Contemporary Collection of British Art and Architecture
Author: Myfanwy Evans (ed.), Introduction by Myfanwy Evans,
Publisher: I. T. Publications Ltd.
Publication date: 1946
Format: Large format soft cover. Original buff wrappers
Pages: 79
Condition: Original buff wrappers slightly age worn; two small tears to spine; some spotting to first and last pages; otherwise very good.
Stock Number: RB01895
In 1946 Myfanwy Evans published the first number of The Pavilion, a contemporary collection of British art and architecture. Pavilion intended `in a series of volumes, to mix the unknown with the accepted, the past with the present” and to avoid connoisseurship. It included a selection of contemporary views on art and architecture, theatre and galleries, including: Wyndham Lewis “Towards an Earth Culture”; English Stained Glass – details in colour ; John Betjeman “Francis Johnson , Irish Architect” ; Edward Bawden “Snails for All” ; Anthony West “A Round of Visits – Arles and Vezalay” ; Robert Medley – “The Designer in the Theatre and Some Reproductions” ; Seven Drawings – Edward Burra , Cecil Collins, Robert Colquhoun, Evie Hone , Robert Medley , Ceri Richards, John Ruskin “Outspokenness” 1874, Geoffrey Grigson on Birmingham Art Gallery.
The Pavilion, and earlier titles edited by Evans ( including Axis and The Painter’s Object) are significant documents in the history of abstract art in Britain in the first half of the twentieth-century. Intended as a series, but with this the only issue ever published, Pavilion continued Evans’ interest in looking beyond the constraints of the type of abstraction practiced by artists’s associated with British constructivism. Rather than regression and compromise (criticisms also levelled at the focus on history and popular in Axis) Pavilion’s non-conformist position to the dominant programme of non-figurative abstraction, signified Evans’ conviction that resistance to that idealism was the only means by which an authentic English modem art practice might be developed.
Title: The Pavilion. A Contemporary Collection of British Art and Architecture
Author: Myfanwy Evans (ed.), Introduction by Myfanwy Evans,
Publisher: I. T. Publications Ltd.
Publication date: 1946
Format: Large format soft cover. Original buff wrappers
Pages: 79
Condition: Original buff wrappers slightly age worn; two small tears to spine; some spotting to first and last pages; otherwise very good.
Stock Number: RB01895
In 1946 Myfanwy Evans published the first number of The Pavilion, a contemporary collection of British art and architecture. Pavilion intended `in a series of volumes, to mix the unknown with the accepted, the past with the present” and to avoid connoisseurship. It included a selection of contemporary views on art and architecture, theatre and galleries, including: Wyndham Lewis “Towards an Earth Culture”; English Stained Glass – details in colour ; John Betjeman “Francis Johnson , Irish Architect” ; Edward Bawden “Snails for All” ; Anthony West “A Round of Visits – Arles and Vezalay” ; Robert Medley – “The Designer in the Theatre and Some Reproductions” ; Seven Drawings – Edward Burra , Cecil Collins, Robert Colquhoun, Evie Hone , Robert Medley , Ceri Richards, John Ruskin “Outspokenness” 1874, Geoffrey Grigson on Birmingham Art Gallery.
The Pavilion, and earlier titles edited by Evans ( including Axis and The Painter’s Object) are significant documents in the history of abstract art in Britain in the first half of the twentieth-century. Intended as a series, but with this the only issue ever published, Pavilion continued Evans’ interest in looking beyond the constraints of the type of abstraction practiced by artists’s associated with British constructivism. Rather than regression and compromise (criticisms also levelled at the focus on history and popular in Axis) Pavilion’s non-conformist position to the dominant programme of non-figurative abstraction, signified Evans’ conviction that resistance to that idealism was the only means by which an authentic English modem art practice might be developed.
Title: The Pavilion. A Contemporary Collection of British Art and Architecture
Author: Myfanwy Evans (ed.), Introduction by Myfanwy Evans,
Publisher: I. T. Publications Ltd.
Publication date: 1946
Format: Large format soft cover. Original buff wrappers
Pages: 79
Condition: Original buff wrappers slightly age worn; two small tears to spine; some spotting to first and last pages; otherwise very good.
Stock Number: RB01895
