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Turner - A Life
James Hamilton
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Description for Turner - A Life
Paperback. A source of inspiration for Mike Leigh's MR TURNER, in this blend of biography and art history, the author introduces Turner to a new generation, dispels many myths, and depicts him as a giant of the 19th century and a beacon for the 21st. Num Pages: 384 pages, 16pp B&w & 8pp Colour Photographs. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; ACV; AFC; AGB; BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 318.
THE DEFINITIVE BIOGRAPHY OF J.M.W. TURNER, REISSUED TO MARK THE 250TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH
'A pleasure to read'
A.S. BYATT
'With splendid clarity and shrewd humour, James Hamilton evokes the visceral world of a great artist and a fascinating character'
MIKE LEIGH, Academy Award-winning director of Mr. Turner
J.M.W. Turner became an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1799, aged just twenty-four. As influential collectors competed to buy his paintings, he travelled widely - in an era defined by industrial change and social turbulence, he observed both landscape and people, gathering material for a ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780340628119
SKU
V9780340628119
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About James Hamilton
James Hamilton, one of today's leading Turner scholars, is a writer, curator and painter. This pioneering biography of Turner, first published in 1997, was followed by Faraday: The Life (2002), London Lights: The Minds that Moved the City that Shook the World (2007), A Strange Business: Making Art and Money in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2014), and biographies of Thomas Gainsborough (2017) ... Read more
Reviews for Turner - A Life
A pleasure to read.
Sunday Express
Hamilton's life gives us a real person ... comprehensibly human and belonging clearly in the England of his time.
Scotsman
Hamilton writes ... with gusto, bringing Turner to vivid three-dimensional life.
The Times
Turner was a phenomenon, a one-man artistic revolution whose energy can be felt through the ... Read more
Sunday Express
Hamilton's life gives us a real person ... comprehensibly human and belonging clearly in the England of his time.
Scotsman
Hamilton writes ... with gusto, bringing Turner to vivid three-dimensional life.
The Times
Turner was a phenomenon, a one-man artistic revolution whose energy can be felt through the ... Read more