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Turner

Autor: Franny Moyle

Número de Páginas: 635

The man behind the paintings: the extraordinary life of J. M. W Turner, one of Britain's most admired, misunderstood and celebrated artists J. M. W. Turner is Britain's most famous landscape painter. Yet beyond his artistic achievements, little is known of the man himself and the events of his life: the tragic committal of his mother to a lunatic asylum, the personal sacrifices he made to effect his stratospheric rise, and the bizarre double life he chose to lead in the last years of his life. A near mythical figure in his own lifetime, Franny Moyle tells the story of the man who was considered visionary at best and ludicrous at worst. A resolute adventurer, he found new ways of revealing Britain to the British, astounding his audience with his invention and intelligence. Set against the backdrop of the finest homes in Britain, the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution, this is an astonishing portrait of one of the most important figures in Western art and a vivid evocation of Britain and Europe in flux.

La vie et les chefs-d'œuvre de J.M.W. Turner

Autor: Eric Shanes

Número de Páginas: 453

Joseph Mallord William Turner (Londres, 1775 – 1851) A 15 ans, Turner exposait déjà une Vue de Lambeth. Il acquit très tôt la réputation d'un aquarelliste extrêmement habile. Disciple de Girtin et de Cozens, il montra par son choix et la façon de présenter ses thèmes une imagination pittoresque qui semblait le destiner à une brillante carrière d'illustrateur. Il voyagea, d'abord dans son pays natal et puis, à plusieurs occasions, en France, dans la vallée du Rhin, en Suisse et en Italie. Son intérêt commença toutefois à dépasser le cadre de l'illustration : l'idéal du paysage lyrique, dominant et inspirateur, se faisait jour, même dans des oeuvres où nous sommes tentés de ne voir rien d'autre qu'une imagination pittoresque. Son choix d'un unique maître du passé est éloquent, étudiant en profondeur toutes les toiles du Lorrain qu'il put trouver en Angleterre, les copiant et les imitant avec une extraordinaire perfection. Il ne se départit jamais de son culte pour le grand peintre. Il voulut que son Lever du soleil à travers la vapeur soit placé à la National Gallery aux côtés de deux chefs-d'oeuvre du Lorrain ; et c'est là que nous pouvons les y...

Turner : Maître et inspiration

Autor: Eric Shanes

Número de Páginas: 208

Véritable électron libre de son époque, William Turner (1775-1851) était considéré comme le maître de la lumière et fut une révélation pour le mouvement impressionniste. Les peintures de ce paysagiste-voyageur s’intensifièrent avec le temps pour quitter définitivement la réalité figurative et offrir une vision lumineuse et transfigurée de la nature environnante. Visionnaire et en avance sur son temps, l’accueil de son art fut sujet à de nombreuses polémiques. Semblable à son existence, les dernières années de sa vie furent synonymes d’abnégation au profit de son art, et à sa mort il fit une donation de plus de 20 000 œuvres.

Literature of Travel and Exploration

Autor: Jennifer Speake

Número de Páginas: 3479

Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.

J.M.W. Turner: Standing in the Sun

Autor: Anthony Bailey

Número de Páginas: 418

Joseph Mallord William Turner is arguably Britain's greatest and most mysterious painter, whose range of work encompasses seascape and landscape, immensely powerful oil paintings and intimate watercolours. His friend and colleague C.R. Leslie remembered him thus: 'Turner was short and stout, and had a sturdy, sailor-like walk. He might be taken for the captain of a river steamboat at first glance; but a second would find more in his face than belongs in any ordinary mind. There was that peculiar keenness of expression in his eye that is only seen in men of constant habits of observation'. The son of a Covent garden barber and a woman who died in Bethlehem Hospital, Turner achieved fame and fortune during his lifetime. Although he possessed a wide-ranging imagination, he was an often incoherent speaker and writer, and his muddled will produced much discord - it is a wonder that, despite avaricious relatives and incompetent lawyers, so many of his works are now in the hands of the nation, and publicly proclaim his genius. In this previously unavailable biography, Anthony Bailey has drawn upon archival material, scholarly literature and research, as well as studying many of Turner's...

Turner's 'drawing Book' the Liber Studiorum

Autor: Gillian Forrester

Número de Páginas: 188

Tate British Artists

Autor: Sam Smiles

Número de Páginas: 92

This book assesses the range and complexity of Turner's work, exploring his artistic and literary influences and interpreting his political views. However, it focuses primarily on describing the evolution of his approach techniques.

Turner as Professor

Autor: Maurice Davies , Tate Gallery

Número de Páginas: 136

Turner

Autor: Frédéric Ogée , Joseph Mallord William Turner

Número de Páginas: 408

- Turner à découvrir à travers la complexité et la richesse de ses motivations esthétiques et culturelles. Un livre d'histoire culturelle autant qu'un livre d'histoire de l'art. Une exceptionnelle sélection de 250 oeuvres, peintures, aquarelles et dessins de Turner. Trop souvent présentés en France avant tout comme les précurseurs de l'impressionnisme, Turner et son oeuvre sont ici replacés dans le riche contexte historique au sein duquel ils sont apparus. Les trois grandes parties de l'ouvrage font ressortir l'importance des idées scientifiques et philosophiques qui, en Grande-Bretagne, ont présidé à l'émergence d'une école nationale de peinture dont Turner est le fer de lance et son oeuvre l'apogée. L'auteur souligne la façon dont l'artiste a mis en oeuvre une approche empirique de la nature, notamment par une recherche constante sur les effets de lumière et de couleur, pour imposer le genre pictural du paysage comme nouvelle peinture d'histoire donnant à comprendre les grands enjeux de l'existence humaine. Le contexte socio-artistique de Londres à la charnière du 19ème siècle, les grands bouleversements de l'histoire contemporaine, mais aussi les liens...

Turner's Later Papers

Autor: Peter Bower , Tate Gallery

Número de Páginas: 152

Whether for a speedy pencil sketch or a highly finished watercolour, the paper Turner used is always an integral part of the work. His intimate understanding of the interplay of surface and the marks made upon it is a crucial part of the visual effect. This book charts the constantly developing relationship between Turner's often very imaginative and innovative techniques and the grounds he worked on. It documents his complex responses to the rapid changes and increasing sophistication of the design and production of papers for artists.

The Turner Book

Autor: Sam Smiles

Número de Páginas: 228

J.M.W. Turner was a fascinating and enigmatic figure. Both astonishingly prolific and extraordinarily innovative, he is widely seen as the greatest British landscape painter of them all, anticipating and surpassing the Impressionists in his dramatic interpretations of the effects of light and colour. The Turner Book goes beyond the usual interpretations of the artist, revealing the extraordinary self-belief and ambition that allowed him to continue steadfastly with his experimentation in the face of hostile critical attack. The book examines in detail key works and the techniques by which Turner realised them and features revealing extracts from his notebooks, travel journals and poetry. Beautifully illustrated with both famous and unknown works and ranging over the entire course of the artist's career, this is the essential guide to Turner's life and work. Sam Smiles is Professor of Art History at the University of Plymouth at Exeter and the author of numerous acclaimed books, including J.M.W. Turner, Two-way Traffic: British Art and Italian Art 1880-1980 and The Image of Antiquity: Ancient Britain and the Romantic Imagination.

The Marriage Licences of the Diocese of Exeter

Autor: John Lambrick Vivian

Número de Páginas: 154

Auction-sale catalogues of items other than books and manuscripts

Autor: Dowell's, Ltd

Número de Páginas: 28

Turner et le Lorrain

Autor: Ian Warrell , Nancy (france). Musée Des Beaux-arts

Número de Páginas: 208

Mets en lumière l'influence de l'oeuvre peinte de Claude Gellée dit le Lorrain sur les gravures et les peintures du peintre anglais J. M. W Turner, tous deux maîtres dans l'art du paysage.

The History of Scarbrough

Autor: Joseph Brogden Baker

Número de Páginas: 580

J.M.W. Turner

Autor: Peter Ackroyd

Número de Páginas: 192

The second short biography in Peter Ackroyd's Brief Lives series concentrates on the life and work of perhaps the greatest and most original of all English Painters. James Mallord William Turner was a Londoner through and through. His father had a barber's shop in Covent Garden, his mother came from a line of London butchers. He was brought up in Maiden Lane. He was short and pugnacious and, as Peter Ackroyd writes: "His speech was recognizably that of a Cockney, and his language was the language of the streets." His language was also the language of light, as exemplified in his most innovative paintings, which caused the critics of the day to come to blows. His dying words were: "The Sun is God." Turner entered the Royal Academy at 14, and a year later was exhibiting. His first loves were architecture, engraving and watercolours, and the country houses, cathedrals and landscape of England. He came to oils through his new passion for Italy. This is the biography that Peter Ackroyd was born to write: Turner's Englishness, his temperament and his London background lie at the core of Ackroyd's lively personal interest in and specialist knowledge of London's history.

Miscellanea genealogica et heraldica

Número de Páginas: 558

Sessional Papers of the Dominion of Canada

Autor: Canada. Parliament

Número de Páginas: 1268

"Report of the Dominion fishery commission on the fisheries of the province of Ontario, 1893", issued as vol. 26, no. 7, supplement.

Turner

Autor: Eric Shanes

Número de Páginas: 216

The prolific master J.M.W. Turner was born in Covent Garden in 1775 and has left over 19,000 artworks that have eventually given to the fog of London its Turnerian savour. Turner was one of the most important Romantic when it came to landscapes, with an inimitable flair for seascapes, and a pioneer of mixing tone and hue. Today his works figure in the collections of the top museums of London, New York and Washington DC.

Turner on the Seine

Autor: Ian Warrell , Tate Gallery

Número de Páginas: 300

Turner published two volumes of views of the River Seine in the early 1830s, when he was at the height of his success. All of the watercolours he completed for the project are reproduced in this book, along with many of his preliminary studies. As the text demonstrates, the watercolours are born out of Turner's long familiarity with the river. His views came as part of an explosion in the market for travel books, particularly for the area between Paris and the coast, and a number of these comparable publications, with their illustrations by some of Turner's finest rivals, are discussed. The book also examines how Turner confronted the technical innovations of the new age, making contemporary features, such as canals and steamboats, the subjects of his pictures, and thereby preparing the ground for masterpieces such as The Fighting Temeraire.