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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 709
EAN: 9781854376909
ISBN: 185437690X
Label: Tate Publishing
Manufacturer: Tate Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: October 01, 2007
Publisher: Tate Publishing
Sales Rank: 97596
Studio: Tate Publishing
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Widely regarded as one of the greatest figures in the history of art, J.M.W. Turner (1775–1851) had a profound influence on the development of Impressionism.
What is less known is that his influence spread far beyond Europe, and provided a foundational model for American artists challenged with tackling the vast panoramas of the New World.
J.M.W. Turner, accompanying the largest exhibition of his work ever presented in the US, shows how Turner’s revolutionary depictions of light, color and atmospherics in the landscape—combined with his understanding of the sublime in nature—made him among the most acclaimed and keenly studied European artists in the New World. Landscape painting was seen as the art form most closely allied to the identity of the newly independent nation, and Turner’s majestic works served as a model for a new generation of American painters.
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE:
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, October 1, 2007–January 6, 2008
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, February 10, 2008–May 18, 2008
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, January 23, 2008–September 21, 2008
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This is the catalogue for the current Turner exhibition held at the National Gallery in Washington and which will later come to the Met in NYC. Many of the paintings come from American and British museums, as well as from private collections and it is also an opportunity to view a significant part of Turner's watercolor output.
The book is divided into three parts following a chronological pattern after an introduction that studies Turner's "desire to rise to the top of the British art ... Read More
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