J. M. W. Turner: Painting Set Free
By Unknown Author.
Description
When the prolific British painter Joseph Mallord William Turner (17751851) died at the age of 76, his contemporaries held a generally negative view of his recent work, describing it as indulgent, eccentric, and even repulsive. But over the past century, a number of curators and critics have reassessed Turner’s late paintings. Instead of finding his employment of shimmering color to evoke light unpleasant or unskilled, they have seen it as a precursor to the Impressionists and consider his use of abstraction to be distinctly modern. In this elegantly conceived volume, leading e...
ISBN(s)
1606064274, 9781606064276
