AXIS 7: A Quarterly Review of Contemporary Abstract Painting and Sculpture (Autumn 1936)

Seventh issue of this iconic quarterly edited by Myfanwy Piper.  Contains the explosive ‘England’s Climate’, an article in which John Piper and Geoffrey Grigson argue for a return to figuration and the English landscape.   ‘Any Constable, any Blake, any Turner has something an abstract or a surrealist painting cannot have.  Hence, partly, the artist’s pique about them now, and his terror of the National Gallery.  The point is fullness, completeness: the abstract qualities of all good painting together with the symbolism (at least) of life itself.  Condition: tanning to covers, otherwise fine