Turner
The Life of Britain's Greatest Painter
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Hodder & Stoughton
Published:15th Jan '98
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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.
The definitive biography of one of Britain's greatest artists: 'Turner was a phenomenon, a one-man artistic revolution whose energy can be felt through the pages of this inspiring biography.' Daily Telegraph
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 series of works that would come to express the collective identity of Britain.
Blending vibrant biography and art history, James Hamilton paints a remarkable portrait of an eccentric and enigmatic figure. He examines the fascinating conflicts of Turner's life and legacy, revealing him to be a giant of the nineteenth century and a beacon for the twenty-first.
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 pages of this inspiring biography. * Daily Telegraph *
Hamilton's readable, unshowy life ... excellent. * Mail on Sunday *
An excellent biography - revealing on the life, perceptive on the art. * Independent on Sunday *
Admirably clear -- Desmond Shawe-Taylor * Observer *
A richly detailed biography . . . Hamilton maintains a steady course between academic respectability and an allowance for the drama and poignancy so clearly central to an accurate portrait of the subject * Los Angeles Times *
Very satisfying . . . detailed, judicious and confidently grounded in the period * Washington Post *
Lively * New Yorker *
Well researched and fluidly written * New York Review of Books *
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 pages of this inspiring biography. * Daily Telegraph *
Hamilton's readable, unshowy life ... excellent. * Mail on Sunday *
An excellent biography - revealing on the life, perceptive on the art. * Independent on Sunday *
With splendid clarity and shrewd humour, James Hamilton evokes the visceral world of a great artist and a fascinating character. * Mike Leigh *
ISBN: 9780340628119
Dimensions: 196mm x 128mm x 32mm
Weight: 300g
384 pages