Description
| Product ID: | 9781849767132 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | IT |
| Title: | Turner's Modern World |
| Authors: | Author: Concannon, Smiles, David, Amy, Sam Blayney Brown |
| Page Count: | 240 |
| Subjects: | Individual artists, art monographs, Individual artists, art monographs, Exhibition catalogues and specific collections, Exhibition catalogues & specific collections |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating To accompany a landmark exhibition of the art of J.M.W. Turner, this book presents Turner as a pioneer painter of contemporary life, finding new ways to picture the momentous events and dizzying changes of modernisation. A landmark new presentation of the work of J.M.W. Turner, repositioning the great painter as a pioneering chronicler of contemporary life, and exploring what it really means to be a modern artist. Turner''s career spanned revolution and the Napoleonic War, Empire, the explosion of finance capitalism, the transition from sail to steam and from manpower to mechanisation, political reform and scientific and cultural advances that transformed society and shaped the modern world. While historians have long recognised that the industrial and political revolutions of the late eighteenth century inaugurated far reaching change and modernisation, these were often ignored by artists as they did not fit into established categories of pictorial representation. This extraordinary new publication shows Turner updating the language of art and transforming his style and practice to produce revelatory, definitive interpretations of modern subjects. This is J.M.W. Turner as he has never been seen before. |
| Imprint Name: | Tate Publishing |
| Publisher Name: | Tate Publishing |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-10-28 |
