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Turner: A Life Book

Turner Landscape painter J.M.W. Turner was reticent about his private life. In this blend of biography and art history, the author introduces Turner to a new generation, scotches many Turner myths and depicts him as a giant of the 19th century and a beacon for the 21st. Full descriptionRead More

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  • Foyles

    The definitive biography of J.M.W. Turner.'A pleasure to read'.' A.S. BYATT'With splendid clarity and shrewd humour, James Hamilton evokes the visceral world of a great artist and a fascinating character.' MIKE LEIGHIn 1799, aged just 24, Turner became an Associate of the Royal Academy. While influential collectors competed to buy his paintings, he travelled widely, observing landscape and people and gathering material for a cycle of images that would come to express the collective identity of Britain. In this lucid blend of vibrant biography and acute art history, James Hamilton introduces Turner to a new generation of readers and paints a picture of a uniquely generous human being, a giant of the nineteenth century and a beacon for the twenty-first.

  • ASDA

    Landscape painter J.M.W. Turner was reticent about his private life. In this blend of biography and art history the author introduces Turner to a new generation scotches many Turner myths and depicts him as a giant of the 19th century and a beacon for the 21st.

  • Blackwell

    A source of inspiration for Mike Leigh's MR TURNER, in this blend of biography and art history, the author introduces Turner to a new generation, dispels many myths, and depicts him as a giant of the 19th century and a beacon for the 21st.

  • 0340628111
  • 9780340628119
  • James Hamilton
  • 15 January 1998
  • Sceptre
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 384
  • New Ed
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