The Turner Book

The Turner Book
Author: Sam Smiles
Publisher: Tate
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2006
Genre: Art
ISBN:

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.

British Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1575-1875

British Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1575-1875
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2009
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1588393488

Covering the period between the late 16th century through to the third quarter of the 19th century, this book features paintings by English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish artists which are part of the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Steel-Engraved Book Illustration in England

Steel-Engraved Book Illustration in England
Author: Basil Hunnisett
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2021-06-23
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1000179613

First published in 1980, Steel-Engraved Book Illustration in England is a detailed and comprehensive survey of the steel engravings that were so popular in the nineteenth century. With an extensive range of illustrations, the book refutes the assumption that steel engravings are of little artistic value or importance, a common attitude rooted largely in the connection between steel engravings and mass-produced books. Beginning with an exploration of the identification problems and early history of steel engravings, it moves through the production and printing of the plates and on to a study of several engravers and artists, as well as of the books themselves. Steel-Engraved Book Illustration in England will appeal to anyone interested in the history of printing and illustration.

European Drawings 2

European Drawings 2
Author: George R. Goldner
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 374
Release: 1992-10-08
Genre: Drawing
ISBN: 0892362197

The Getty Museum's collection of drawings was begun in 1981 with the purchase of a Rembrandt nude and has since become an important repository of European works from the fifteenth through the nineteenth century. As in the first volume devoted to the collection (published in 1988 in English and Italian editions), the text is here organized first by national school, then alphabetically by artist, with individual works arranged chronologically. For each drawing, the authors provide a discussion of the work's style, dating, iconography, and relationship to other works, as well as provenance and a complete bibliography.

Fire in the Sky

Fire in the Sky
Author: Roberta J. M. Olson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 412
Release: 1999-11-13
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780521663595

An accessible and interesting presentation of the diverse range of historical material about comets.

Cultivating Picturacy

Cultivating Picturacy
Author: James A. W. Heffernan
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Total Pages: 439
Release: 2006
Genre: Visual communication
ISBN: 1932792414

While words typically frame and regulate our experience of art, the study explains how pictures can contest the authority of the words we use to interpret art.