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20%OFFIan Warrell - Turner´s Secret Sketches - 9781849760850 - V9781849760850
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Turner´s Secret Sketches

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Description for Turner´s Secret Sketches Hardback.
The first volume exclusively devoted to J.M.W. Turner's erotic works, bringing together an outstanding selection of sensual and passionate drawings by the great master, all drawn from Tate's collection. 
Up until a few years ago, biographies of both J.M.W. Turner and John Ruskin had claimed that, in 1858, Ruskin burned bundles of erotic paintings and drawings by Turner in a fit of embarrassed Victorian censorship, to protect Turner's posthumous reputation. Ruskin's friend Ralph Nicholson Wornum, who was Keeper of the National Gallery, was said to have colluded in the alleged destruction. However, in 2005 these works, ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Tate Publishing
Number of pages
144
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781849760850
SKU
V9781849760850
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About Ian Warrell
Ian Warrell is Curator (18th and 19th Century British Art), Tate; Collection

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