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The life and masterworks of J.M.W. Turner / Eric Shanes.
Fine Arts Library ND497.T8 S53 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shanes, Eric.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851.
- Turner, J. M. W.
- Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851--Criticism and interpretation.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Genre:
- Catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 255 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 33 cm
- Edition:
- [Revised, expanded and updated fourth edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Parkstone Press, [2008]
- Summary:
- Throughout Turners art there is an unusually rich dramatic sensibility, an immense interest in the complexities of life, an unmatched responsiveness to the scale and grandeur of nature, and a profound inquisitiveness about the behavioural realities that underlie appearances what the painter himself called the qualities of causes of things. This curiosity led Turner to explore the universal constants of man-made and natural architecture, the workings of light and meteorology, and the dynamic of the sea. Increasingly his powers as a colourist became stronger and even more sophisticated, so that eventually he developed into not only one of the finest colourists in European painting but unquestionably the most subtle tonalist in world art. Everywhere in his uvre, but especially in his later works, we can witness the projection of an ideal word of colour, form and feeling.
- Notes:
- "This book is a revised, expanded and updated fourth edition of Turner/ the masterworks by Eric Shanes, ... first published in London in 1990"--p. [5].
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-249) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781859956816
- 1859956815
- OCLC:
- 176919993
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