12%OFF
Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
The Turner Book
Sam Smiles
€ 31.99
€ 28.27
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for The Turner Book
Paperback. Of interest to an art enthusiast, this book is both a practical manual for discovering and understanding the artist, J M W Turner, and a guide to his life and work. It examines in detail key works and the techniques by which Turner realised them and features revealing extracts from his notebooks, travel journals and poetry. Num Pages: 244 pages, over 100 illustrations. BIC Classification: ACVC; AFC; AGB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 245 x 188 x 19. Weight in Grams: 780.
J.M.W. Turner was a fascinating and enigmatic figure. Both astonishingly prolific and extraordinarily innovative, he is widely seen as the greatest British landscape painter of them all, anticipating and surpassing the Impressionists in his dramatic interpretations of the effects of light and colour. "The Turner Book" goes beyond the usual interpretations of the artist, revealing the extraordinary self-belief and ambition that allowed him to continue steadfastly with his experimentation in the face of hostile critical attack. The book examines in detail key works and the techniques by which Turner realised them and features revealing extracts from his notebooks, travel journals ... Read more
J.M.W. Turner was a fascinating and enigmatic figure. Both astonishingly prolific and extraordinarily innovative, he is widely seen as the greatest British landscape painter of them all, anticipating and surpassing the Impressionists in his dramatic interpretations of the effects of light and colour. "The Turner Book" goes beyond the usual interpretations of the artist, revealing the extraordinary self-belief and ambition that allowed him to continue steadfastly with his experimentation in the face of hostile critical attack. The book examines in detail key works and the techniques by which Turner realised them and features revealing extracts from his notebooks, travel journals ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Tate Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781854375728
SKU
V9781854375728
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Sam Smiles
Sam Smiles is Professor of Art History at the University of Plymouth at Exeter and the author of numerous acclaimed books, including J.M.W. Turner, Two-way Traffic: British Art and Italian Art 1880-1980 and The Image of Antiquity: Ancient Britain and the Romantic Imagination.
Reviews for The Turner Book
"'This is easily the best introduction to Turner that I have read in quite a while. It provides an informed audience with an excellent synthesis of the key issues regarding the artist's life, work, and era.... The Turner that emerges here is one that I find entirely congenial and transfixing - and the Turner that a larger public should come ... Read more