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(P/B) LATE TURNER
This book accompanies The EY Exhibition: Late Turner - Painting Set Free at Tate Britain (10 September 2014 - 25 January 2015). It is a brand new piece of Turner scholarship with dedicated sections on his technique, and a study of how age may have affected his ways of seeing and painting. The last sixteen years of Turner's life, from 1835 when he turned sixty, saw an extraordinary creative flowering when he produced some of his most dazzling, audacious and innovative works. His mastery of watercolour reached a spectacular peak while his oi...
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(P/B) 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 to know'- Professor Kathleen Nicholson, author of Turner's Classical Landscapes: Myth and Meaning. Widely regarded as the greatest British artist of all, the work of J.M.W. Turner needs little introduction. ...
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(P/B) LIGHT INTO COLOUR

(P/B) J.M.W. TURNER
In a small octagonal room in London's National Gallery hang four works, two by Claude, the French seventeenth-century landscape painter, and two by J.M.W. Turner. One of these pictures is Dido Building Carthage (fig. 17), whose emulation of Claude's Seaport (fig. 2) is clearly signified, with a rising sun framed by classical buildings, flooding the scene with light. The other is Sun Rising through Vapour (fig.i), first exhibited in 1807, in which Turner pays his debts to the other great landscape tradition in European art, Dutch painting o...
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