J. M. W. Turner by Sam Smiles
Product Specifications
- Title: J. M. W. Turner by Sam Smiles
- Author: Sam Smiles
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Binding: Hardback
- History of art art & design styles
- No. of pages: 240
- Dimensions (approx. mm): 180 x 248 x 21
Product Description
Alone of his contemporaries Turner is commonly held to have prefigured modern painting as signalled in the existence of The Turner Prize for contemporary art. Our celebration of his achievement is very different to what Victorian critics made of his art. This book shows how Turner was reinvented to become the artist we recognise today. -- .