Turner
J.M.W. Turner was a painter whose treatment of light put him squarely in the pantheon of the world's preeminent artists, but his character was a tangle of fascinating contradictions. While he could be coarse and rude, manipulative, ill-mannered, and inarticulate, he was also generous, questioning, and humane, and he displayed through his work a hitherto unrecognized optimism about the course of human progress. With two illegitimate daughters and several mistresses whom Turner made a career of not including in his public life, the painter was also known for his entrepreneurial cunning, demanding and receiving the highest prices for his work.Ov…
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- ISBN: 978-0-307-54845-0
- EAN: 9780307548450
- Produktnummer: 15734675
- Verlag: Random House Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 496 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'149 KB
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James Hamilton is an art historian and biographer. Formerly a Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford, he is now the university curator and honorary reader in the history of art at the University of Birmingham in England. He organized and wrote the catalogue of the exhibition Turner and the Scientists at the Tate, and his biography of J. M. W. Turner was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Award.
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