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Turner's Modern and Ancient Ports: Passages Through Time
Contributor(s): Galassi, Susan Grace (Author), Warrell, Ian (Author), Seidenstein, Joanna Sheers (Author)

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ISBN: 0300223145     ISBN-13: 9780300223149
Publisher: Yale University Press
OUR PRICE: $42.75  

Binding Type: Hardcover
Published: February 2017
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Art | Individual Artists - Monographs
- Art | Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General
- Art | Subjects & Themes - Landscapes & Seascapes
Dewey: 759.2
LCCN: 2016038501
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 9.7" W x 11.3" L (2.73 lbs) 176 pages
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Price on Product
Review Citations: Choice 07/01/2017
 
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Publisher Description:
An engaging look at one of the central motifs in the work of the great 19th-century painter

Widely considered Britain's greatest painter, Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) is best known for his light-filled landscapes and seascapes. A relentless traveler, Turner often turned his artistic attention to the theme of modern and ancient ports. In the mid-1820s, Turner exhibited two monumental, and controversial, paintings of ports: Cologne and Dieppe. Shocking for their intense luminosity and yellow tonality, as well as for Turner's unorthodox handling of paint, these works marked a transition in the artist's career as he moved away from naturalism and toward a new, poetic topography.

This in-depth study of these two seminal paintings also addresses a wide selection of Turner's works in both oil and watercolor from the 1820s, placing them in the context of radical changes in British social and economic structures taking place at the time. Drawing from period travel accounts, contemporary critical commentary, and new technical analyses of Turner's work, this magnificently illustrated book brings a fresh, new perspective to the pivotal middle years of Turner's career.

 
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