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Turner’s Modern and Ancient Ports: Passages through Time
Susan Grace Galassi
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Description for Turner’s Modern and Ancient Ports: Passages through Time
Hardback. An engaging look at one of the central motifs in the work of the great 19th-century painter Num Pages: 176 pages, 120 color illus. BIC Classification: ACV; AFC; AGB; AGN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 290 x 253 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1242.
An engaging look at one of the central motifs in the work of the great 19th-century painter
Widely considered Britain’s greatest painter, Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851) is best known for his light-filled landscapes and seascapes. A relentless traveler, Turner often turned his artistic attention to the theme of modern and ancient ports. In the mid-1820s, Turner exhibited two monumental, and controversial, paintings of ports: Cologne and Dieppe. Shocking for their intense luminosity and yellow tonality, as well as for Turner’s unorthodox handling of paint, these works marked a transition in the artist’s career as he moved away ... Read more
An engaging look at one of the central motifs in the work of the great 19th-century painter
Widely considered Britain’s greatest painter, Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851) is best known for his light-filled landscapes and seascapes. A relentless traveler, Turner often turned his artistic attention to the theme of modern and ancient ports. In the mid-1820s, Turner exhibited two monumental, and controversial, paintings of ports: Cologne and Dieppe. Shocking for their intense luminosity and yellow tonality, as well as for Turner’s unorthodox handling of paint, these works marked a transition in the artist’s career as he moved away ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
1241g
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300223149
SKU
V9780300223149
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About Susan Grace Galassi
Susan Grace Galassi is senior curator at The Frick Collection. Ian Warrell is an independent curator. Joanna Sheers Seidenstein is the 2015–17 Anne L. Poulet Curatorial Fellow at The Frick Collection. Gillian Forrester is senior curator of prints and drawings at the Yale Center for British Art. Rebecca Hellen is paintings conservator at Tate Britain. Eloise Owens is a curatorial ... Read more
Reviews for Turner’s Modern and Ancient Ports: Passages through Time
“[T]his lively, attractive book takes as its subject two key paintings, Harbor of Dieppe: Changement de Domicile and Cologne, the Arrival of a Packet-Boat: Evening . . . present[ing] an informative, accessible discussion of Turner’s art.”–CHOICE
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