The Turn of the Screw: Visual Responses to Britten's Opera (2007)

Limited edition signed by Jane Mackay, Andrew Plant, and James Bowman

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Printing Details

First edition, limited to 300 copies (of which this is number 276). Hardback, bound in blue cloth with blindstamped titling to spine and upper board. 27 × 24.5cm, 96pp.

Signed to the limitation page by all three authors.

This book contains 33 paintings by acclaimed artist Jane Mackay are a visual reaction to Britten's opera, accompanied by an introduction and commentary by musicologist Andrew Plant.

Of their adaptation of Henry James' allusive short story, librettist Myfanwy Piper wrote that she and Britten intended to 'recreate it for a different medium.' This concept is developed further in Jane Mackay's 33 paintings: a visual reaction to the music rather than illustrations to particular scenes, occupying a unique position between abstract and figurative art. Musicologist Andrew Plant, formerly of the Britten-Pears Library, provides an introduction and commentary and there is a preface by the distinguished countertenor James Bowman.

Condition

This copy is in very good condition but lacks the slipcase.

ISBN

9780955547409