J M W Turner And The Subject Of History

Author : Leo Costello
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351561846

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J.M.W. Turner and the Subject of History by Leo Costello Pdf

J.M.W. Turner and the Subject of History is an in-depth consideration of the artist's complex response to the challenge of creating history paintings in the early nineteenth century. Structured around the linked themes of making and unmaking, of creation and destruction, this book examines how Turner's history paintings reveal changing notions of individual and collective identity at a time when the British Empire was simultaneously developing and fragmenting. Turner similarly emerges as a conflicted subject, one whose artistic modernism emerged out of a desire to both continue and exceed his eighteenth-century aesthetic background by responding to the altered political and historical circumstances of the nineteenth century.

Author : Leo Costello
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351561853

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J.M.W. Turner and the Subject of History by Leo Costello Pdf

J.M.W. Turner and the Subject of History is an in-depth consideration of the artist's complex response to the challenge of creating history paintings in the early nineteenth century. Structured around the linked themes of making and unmaking, of creation and destruction, this book examines how Turner's history paintings reveal changing notions of individual and collective identity at a time when the British Empire was simultaneously developing and fragmenting. Turner similarly emerges as a conflicted subject, one whose artistic modernism emerged out of a desire to both continue and exceed his eighteenth-century aesthetic background by responding to the altered political and historical circumstances of the nineteenth century.

Author : David Blayney Brown,Amy Concannon,Sam Smiles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1606064274

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J.M.W. Turner by David Blayney Brown,Amy Concannon,Sam Smiles Pdf

Author : Olivier Meslay,Joseph Mallord William Turner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Painters
ISBN : 0500301182

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J.M.W. Turner by Olivier Meslay,Joseph Mallord William Turner Pdf

In 1802, at the age of 26, Joseph Mallord William Turner became the youngest ever member of the Royal Academy. A prolific painter and watercolourist, his paintings began by combining great historical themes with the inspired visions of nature, but his experimentation with capturing the effects of light led him swiftly towards an unusual dissolution of forms. Turner was a constant traveller, not only within the British Isles but also throughout Europe, from the Alps to the banks of the Rhine, from northern France to Rome and Venice. His death in 1851 revealed not only his zealously guarded private life but also a will that left both his fortune and more than thirty thousand drawings, watercolours and paintings to the nation. In this profusely illustrated book, Olivier Meslay invites us to follow the development of Turner's incandescent art, a bridge between Romanticism and Impressionism and one of Britain's most remarkable contributions to art history.

Author : Franny Moyle
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780241964552

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Turner by Franny Moyle Pdf

The man behind the paintings: the extraordinary life of J. M. W Turner, one of Britain's most admired, misunderstood and celebrated artists J. M. W. Turner is Britain's most famous landscape painter. Yet beyond his artistic achievements, little is known of the man himself and the events of his life: the tragic committal of his mother to a lunatic asylum, the personal sacrifices he made to effect his stratospheric rise, and the bizarre double life he chose to lead in the last years of his life. A near mythical figure in his own lifetime, Franny Moyle tells the story of the man who was considered visionary at best and ludicrous at worst. A resolute adventurer, he found new ways of revealing Britain to the British, astounding his audience with his invention and intelligence. Set against the backdrop of the finest homes in Britain, the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution, this is an astonishing portrait of one of the most important figures in Western art and a vivid evocation of Britain and Europe in flux.

Author : Matthew C. Potter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351004169

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Representing the Past in the Art of the Long Nineteenth Century by Matthew C. Potter Pdf

This edited collection explores the intersection of historical studies and the artistic representation of the past in the long nineteenth century. The case studies provide not just an account of the pursuit of history in art within Western Europe but also examples from beyond that sphere. These cover canonical and conventional examples of history painting as well as more inclusive, ‘popular’ and vernacular visual cultural phenomena. General themes explored include the problematics internal to the theory and practice of academic history painting and historical genre painting, including compositional devices and the authenticity of artefacts depicted; relationships of power and purpose in historical art; the use of historical art for alternative Liberal and authoritarian ideals; the international cross-fertilisation of ideas about historical art; and exploration of the diverse influences of socioeconomic and geopolitical factors. This book will be of particular interest to scholars of the histories of nineteenth-century art and culture.

Author : Thomas Van Essen
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590515501

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The Center of the World by Thomas Van Essen Pdf

Alternating between nineteenth-century England and present-day New York, this is the story of renowned British painter J. M. W. Turner and his circle of patrons and lovers. It is also the story of Henry Leiden, a middle-aged family man with a troubled marriage and a dead-end job, who finds his life transformed by his discovery of Turner’s The Center of the World, a mesmerizing and unsettling painting of Helen of Troy that was thought to have been lost forever. This painting has such devastating erotic power that it was kept hidden for almost two centuries, and was even said to have been destroyed...until Henry stumbles upon it in a secret compartment at his summer home in the Adirondacks. Though he knows it is an object of immense value, the thought of parting with it is unbearable: Henry is transfixed by its revelation of a whole other world, one of transcendent light, joy, and possibility. Back in the nineteenth century, Turner struggles to create The Center of the World, his greatest painting, but a painting unlike anything he (or anyone else) has ever attempted. We meet his patron, Lord Egremont, an aristocrat in whose palatial home Turner talks freely about his art and his beliefs. We also meet Elizabeth Spencer, Egremont’s mistress and Turner’s muse, the model for his Helen. Meanwhile, in the present, Henry is relentlessly trailed by an unscrupulous art dealer determined to get his hands on the painting at any cost. Filled with sex, beauty, and love (of all kinds), this richly textured novel explores the intersection between art and eroticism.

Author : Nicola Moorby,Mike Chaplin,Ian Warrell,Tony Smibert
Publisher : Tate Enterprises Ltd
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781849763943

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How to Paint Like Turner by Nicola Moorby,Mike Chaplin,Ian Warrell,Tony Smibert Pdf

JMW Turner is one of the greatest artists Britain has ever produced. His watercolours, with their extraordinary effects of shifting light and dramatic skyscapes, are especially highly regarded. For the first time, the secrets of Turner's technique are revealed, allowing present-day watercolourists to learn from his achievements.This book combines unrivalled knowledge of Turner's working methods from Tate curators and conservators with practical advice from some of the world's most respected watercolour experts. Twenty-two thematic exercises are illustrated with Turner's works. Expert contemporary watercolourists explain, step-by-step, how to paint a similar composition, learning from Turner's techniques. Packed with invaluable information, from the materials Turner used to achieve the masterpieces we know and love today, to the modern materials the twenty-first-century watercolour artist will need.Backed by the authority of Tate, the world centre for Turner scholarship, with a glossary of technical terms, this is an invaluable resource both for lovers of Turner's art and of watercolour painting.

Author : Graham Reynolds
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780500775905

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Turner (Second) (World of Art) by Graham Reynolds Pdf

With clear writing, this is the ideal introduction to J. M. W. Turner’s life and work for anyone interested in British painting in its golden age. Few British artists have ever achieved such a wide range of style in oil painting, watercolor, drawing, and engraving as J. M. W. Turner. This classic book in the World of Art series traces the artist’s career from youthful, picturesque views and watercolors of Gothic ruins, to romantic landscapes and historical compositions, to the darker abstracts of his later career. Though these late works were incomprehensible to his contemporaries, Turner is understood today as one of the greatest British painters because of these pioneering explorations into abstraction, which prefigured the art of the twentieth century. In Turner, Graham Reynolds weaves together the artist’s biography and criticism of his work through all phases of his career, paying particular attention to the importance of foreign travel and the influence of Claude Lorrain and Nicolas Poussin. First published in 1969, Turner has long served as an outstanding introduction to Turner’s life and art. Now with full-color illustrations and a new introduction by David Brown, this updated and revised edition reflects recent discoveries and interpretations of Turner’s work, and will serve as the best available study of the artist for a new generation of readers.

Author : Sam Smiles
Publisher : Paul Mellon Centre
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : ART
ISBN : 1913107167

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The Late Works of J.M.W. Turner by Sam Smiles Pdf

An exploration of Turner's final, vital years, including new readings of some of his most significant paintings0 The paintings and drawings Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) produced from 1835 to his death in 1851 are seen by many as his most audacious and compelling work, a typical example of "late style." In this study, Sam Smiles goes beyond late style, with its focus on formal qualities and assumptions about personal expression, as an explanatory framework for Turner's late works. Instead, he argues that Turner, in his final fifteen years, was an artist entirely engaged with his own times. Smiles examines the artist's critical reception in these years and scrutinizes accounts that presumed Turner's physical and mental health collapsed in his seventies, to see what can be reliably said about his work as he aged. Emerging from this study is an artist who used his final years to consolidate the principles that had motivated him throughout his career.

Author : Gillian Russell,Neil Ramsey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781137474315

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Tracing War in British Enlightenment and Romantic Culture by Gillian Russell,Neil Ramsey Pdf

This volume argues for the enduring and pervasive significance of war in the formation of British Enlightenment and Romantic culture. Showing how war throws into question conventional disciplinary parameters and periodization, essays in the collection consider how war shapes culture through its multiple, divergent, and productive traces.

Author : Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Artists
ISBN : YALE:39002088672754

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The Life of J. M. W. Turner, R.A. by Philip Gilbert Hamerton Pdf

Author : Christine Riding,Richard Johns
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780500239056

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Turner and the Sea by Christine Riding,Richard Johns Pdf

A beautifully produced book showcasing Turner’s depictions of the sea, published to coincide with a major exhibition This is the first publication to focus on J. M. W. Turner’s lifelong fascination with the sea, from his Royal Academy debut in 1796, Fishermen at Sea, to his iconic maritime subjects of the 1830s and 1840s such as Staffa, Fingal’s Cave. It places Turner and his work firmly in the broader field of maritime painting that flourished in nineteenth-century Britain, France, Germany, Holland, and America. The majority of the works illustrated here—paintings, watercolors, sketches, sketchbooks, and engravings—are by Turner, but there are also comparative works by some forty other artists including Winslow Homer, James McNeill Whistler, John Constable, Benjamin West, and Gustave Courbet. The book is organized thematically and chronologically, and the subjects range from “Contested Waters,” which examines what was at stake for marine painting during the Napoleonic Wars, to “New Wave,” an exploration of Turner’s international and often surprising legacy for the art of the sea.

Author : Susan Grace Galassi,Ian Warrell,Gillian Forrester,Joanna Sheers Seidenstein,Rebecca Hellen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300223145

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Turner's Modern and Ancient Ports by Susan Grace Galassi,Ian Warrell,Gillian Forrester,Joanna Sheers Seidenstein,Rebecca Hellen Pdf

Modern Histories: Turner's Chronicles of War, Peace, and the Course of Empire / by Gillian Forrester -- Shifting Currents: Turner's Depictions of Coasts, Rivers, Harbors, and Ports in the 1820s / by Ian Warrell -- Liminal Spaces: Turner's Paintings of Dieppe and Cologne / by Susan Grace Galassi -- 'Unfinished Productions': History and Process in Turner's 1820s Port Scenes of Dieppe, Cologne, and Brest / by Rebecca Hellen -- Inglorious Histories: Turner's Ancient Ports / by Joanna Sheers Seidenstein.

Author : James Hamilton
Publisher : Sceptre
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781444795158

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Turner by James Hamilton Pdf

The definitive biography of J.M.W. Turner. 'A pleasure to read'.' A.S. BYATT 'With splendid clarity and shrewd humour, James Hamilton evokes the visceral world of a great artist and a fascinating character.' MIKE LEIGH In 1799, aged just 24, Turner became an Associate of the Royal Academy. While influential collectors competed to buy his paintings, he travelled widely, observing landscape and people and gathering material for a cycle of images that would come to express the collective identity of Britain. In this lucid blend of vibrant biography and acute art history, James Hamilton introduces Turner to a new generation of readers and paints a picture of a uniquely generous human being, a giant of the nineteenth century and a beacon for the twenty-first.