Piperism
William Feaver: John and Myfanwy Piper, 17 December 2009
John Piper, Myfanwy Piper: Lives in Art
by Frances Spalding.
Oxford, 598 pp., £25, September 2009,978 0 19 956761 4 Show More
by Frances Spalding.
Oxford, 598 pp., £25, September 2009,
“... the second Mrs Piper (‘my silken Myfanwy’) back into his imagined childhood: ‘Ringleader, tom-boy, and chum to the weak.’ The real Myfanwy decided to start a magazine bright enough to show the world that Britain was not beyond the reach of international art. ‘The battle has been pitched between abstract painting and sculpture and surrealist ... ”