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Turner

Author : David Blayney Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783777432663
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Turner written by David Blayney Brown and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extensive travels of J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851) through Britain and continental Europe provided an inexhaustible source of inspiration for his visionary color compositions, imaginative landscapes, and turbulent, often violent marine paintings. In Switzerland, he experienced both the beauty and the menace of the Alps, while by the sea, he observed the colorful harmonies of diffuse light. These experiences laid the groundwork for Turner to elevate landscape painting to an eminence that rivaled history painting. But how did he get there? Presenting this incomparably original artist on his route to autonomy in art, Turner traces the London artist's travels as he extended his search for motifs to Central Europe during the continent's temporary peace in 1802. He spent much time journeying through the mountains of Switzerland, constantly sketching his impressions of the scenes around him. Upon his return to London, he developed the unique imagery of his sublime landscape paintings. Through one hundred color illustrations that tell a story about the forces of nature of the sea and the Swiss mountain landscapes, the authors here examine the change Turner brought to the portrayal of the sublime and the subject of weather phenomena. Other essays explore Turner's role as the forerunner of modernism and reflect on the relationship between the artist and travel. Bringing together the symphony of colors that composed Turner's view of Switzerland's awe-inspiring landscapes, this book sheds new light on the artist's vision of the Alps and the sea.

Turner in the Alps

Author : David Hill
Publisher : Philip's
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Turner in the Alps written by David Hill and published by Philip's. This book was released on 1992 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Turner in Switzerland

Author : Joseph Mallord William Turner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Turner in Switzerland written by Joseph Mallord William Turner and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Travels in Switzerland, and in the Country of Grisons

Author : Coxe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Travels in Switzerland, and in the Country of Grisons written by Coxe and published by . This book was released on 1801 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Somebodies and Nobodies

Author : Brian Turner
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN 13 : 1775531597
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (755 download)

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Download or read book Somebodies and Nobodies written by Brian Turner and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honest and insightful, this memoir is a revealing picture of our recent past, of sport and poetry, the spirit of New Zealand's south and its distinctive people. This is the story of a typical Dunedin childhood, surrounded by 'nobies' - an extended family of eccentric grandparents and uncles, cousins and neighbours - who made a huge impact on a young mind. It's also the story of a not-so-typical family that was fanatical about sport - cycling, hockey, cricket, golf, fishing - and went on to produce top-ranking sportsmen. It's also the story of the growth of one of New Zealand's most loved poets. It shows three boys who became somebodies, but no better nor worse than the nobodies who inspired them. This is Brian Turner's view of the world: the landscape and people he was surrounded by; the principles he was taught; his sporting achievements; the early development of his brothers; his time moving between jobs as distinct as rabbiting in Central Otago and working in Customs; and his entry into the world of books.

The Rockies and the Alps

Author : Katherine Manthorne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780932828262
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (282 download)

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Download or read book The Rockies and the Alps written by Katherine Manthorne and published by . This book was released on 2017-12 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rockies and the Alps: Bierstadt, Calame, and the Romance of the MountainsKatherine Manthorne and Tricia Laughlin BloomWith contributions by Patricia Mainardi and James M. SaslowInspired by the grandeur of the Rockies and the Alps, American and European artists strove to capture their power in paint. Landscapes of soaring peaks and spectacular vistas became increasingly popular in the mid-nineteenth century, when photographers, scientists, and armchair travelers were awakening to these wonders. Artistic interests coincided with the rise of tourism, as improved transportation and accommodations made mountains and glaciers more accessible. This richly illustrated volume brings together dazzling depictions of the Rockies and the Alps, while examining the dialogue between artists who visited and recorded these geographically distant ranges. Two key figures highlighted are Swiss painter Alexandre Calame (1810¿1864), frequently identified with Alpine views of torrents, glaciers, and gorges, and Albert Bierstadt (1830¿1902), whose impressive canvases often provided American audiences with their first glimpse of the Rockies and the western frontier. Their contemporaries included J.M.W. Turner, John Ruskin, painters of the Hudson River School Thomas Cole, Worthington Whittredge, and John F. Kensett, and photographers Carleton Watkins and Eadweard Muybridge.The Rockies and the Alps features contributions by four outstanding scholars who investigate how geology, flora and fauna, and social and literary contexts relate to the rise of alpine landscape painting. Each essay explores the close connections among these artists and diverse layers of symbolism these mountain images carried, revealing how the same landscape paintings that became archetypal symbols of American identity were in fact the product of a dialogue between American and European artists.

Liber Studiorum

Author : Joseph Mallord William Turner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Liber Studiorum written by Joseph Mallord William Turner and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hannibal Crosses The Alps

Author : John Prevas
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0786731214
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Hannibal Crosses The Alps written by John Prevas and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2009-03-05 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When he left his Spanish base one spring day in 218 B.C. with his 100,000-man army of mercenaries, officers, and elephants, Hannibal was launching not just the main offensive of the Second Punic War but also one of the great military journeys in ancient history. His masterful advance through rough terrain and fierce Celtic tribes proved his worth as a leader, but it was his extraordinary passage through the Alps—still considered treacherous even by modern climbers—that made him a legend. John Prevas combines rigorous research of ancient sources with his own excursions through the icy peaks to bring to life this awesome trek, solving the centuries-old question of Hannibal's exact route and shedding fresh light on the cultures of Rome and Carthage along the way. Here is the finest kind of history, sure to appeal to readers of Steven Pressfield's Gates of Fire: alive with grand strategy, the clash of empires, fabulous courage, and the towering figure of Hannibal Barca.

Turner

Author : Franny Moyle
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 073522093X
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Turner written by Franny Moyle and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life of one of Western art's most admired and misunderstood painters J.M.W. Turner is one of the most important figures in Western art, and his visionary work paved the way for a revolution in landscape painting. Over the course of his lifetime, Turner strove to liberate painting from an antiquated system of patronage. Bringing a new level of expression and color to his canvases, he paved the way for the modern artist. Turner was very much a man of his changing era. In his lifetime, he saw Britain ravaged by Napoleonic wars, revived by the Industrial Revolution, and embarked upon a new moment of Imperial glory with the ascendancy of Queen Victoria. His own life embodied astonishing transformation. Born the son of a barber in Covent Garden, he was buried amid pomp and ceremony in St. Paul's Cathedral. Turner was accepted into the prestigious Royal Academy at the height of the French Revolution when a climate of fear dominated Britain. Unable to travel abroad he explored at home, reimagining the landscape to create some of the most iconic scenes of his country. But his work always had a profound human element. When a moment of peace allowed travel into Europe, Turner was one of the first artists to capture the beauty of the Alps, to revive Venice as a subject, and to follow in Byron’s footsteps through the Rhine country. While he was commercially successful for most of his career, Turner's personal life remained fraught. His mother suffered from mental illness and was committed to Bedlam. Turner never married but had several long-term mistresses and illegitimate daughters. His erotic drawings were numerous but were covered up by prurient Victorians after his death. Turner's late, impressionistic work was held up by his Victorian detractors as example of a creeping madness. Affection for the artist’s work soured. John Ruskin, the greatest of all 19th century art critics, did what he could to rescue Turner’s reputation, but Turner’s very last works confounded even his greatest defender. TURNER humanizes this surprising genius while placing him in his fascinating historical context. Franny Moyle brilliantly tells the story of the man to give us an astonishing portrait of the artist and a vivid evocation of Britain and Europe in flux.

The Oxford Companion to J.M.W. Turner

Author : Martin Butlin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198600251
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Companion to J.M.W. Turner written by Martin Butlin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers entries on the life and times of the British painter, the landscapes depicted in his works, his patrons and associates, and the value of his work on the art market, along with studies of individual paintings.

Turner & Italy

Author : James Hamilton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Turner & Italy written by James Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851) conducted a love affair with Italy throughout his professional life. He was enchanted by its climate, landscapes, architecture and art. This richly illustrated book sets out to explore this complex and enduring relationship.

Chaucer

Author : Marion Turner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691210152
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Chaucer written by Marion Turner and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "More than any other canonical English writer, Geoffrey Chaucer lived and worked at the centre of political life--yet his poems are anything but conventional. Edgy, complicated, and often dark, they reflect a conflicted world, and their astonishing diversity and innovative language earned Chaucer renown as the father of English literature. Marion Turner, however, reveals him as a great European writer and thinker. To understand his accomplishment, she reconstructs in unprecedented detail the cosmopolitan world of Chaucer's adventurous life, focusing on the places and spaces that fired his imagination. Uncovering important new information about Chaucer's travels, private life, and the early circulation of his writings, this innovative biography documents a series of vivid episodes, moving from the commercial wharves of London to the frescoed chapels of Florence and the kingdom of Navarre, where Christians, Muslims, and Jews lived side by side. The narrative recounts Chaucer's experiences as a prisoner of war in France, as a father visiting his daughter's nunnery, as a member of a chaotic Parliament, and as a diplomat in Milan, where he encountered the writings of Dante and Boccaccio. At the same time, the book offers a comprehensive exploration of Chaucer's writings, taking the reader to the Troy of Troilus and Criseyde, the gardens of the dream visions, and the peripheries and thresholds of The Canterbury Tales. By exploring the places Chaucer visited, the buildings he inhabited, the books he read, and the art and objects he saw, this landmark biography tells the extraordinary story of how a wine merchant's son became the poet of The Canterbury Tales." -- Publisher's description.

How the English Made the Alps

Author : Jim Ring
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571276490
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book How the English Made the Alps written by Jim Ring and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For English read British which is not to quibble with the title but, as Jim Ring himself explains, 'During the period on which this book focuses, it was the custom - in the words of a Scot - ''to let the part - the larger part - speak for the whole.'' Those countries which received them - France, Italy, Austria, Germany, and above all Switzerland - all talked of the English, and the presence of the English in the Alps was precisely so described. To use the term British would thus have been an anachronism.' The nineteenth century will forever be associated with the growth of the British Empire, but nearer home there was a quieter conquest taking place. Gradually the English were taking over the Alps, scaling their peaks, driving railways through them, and introducing both winter sports and those quintessential English institutions - tea, baths, lawn tennis and churches - to remote mountain villages. Jim Ring tells the remarkable story of the English love affair with the Alps, from its beginnings with the Romantic movement, when poets such as Byron and Shelly wrote of the mountains with awed delight, through the great days of the 1850s and 1860s and the formation of the Alpine Club, to the inter-war years when the English assured the future prosperity of the alpine resorts by virtually inventing and then popularizing downhill-skiing. Part history, part biography, How the English made the Alps brings the characters - the artists, the scientists, the gentleman-adventurers, the invalids, the aristocrats, eccentrics and mountain-scramblers - vividly to life. 'Jim Rings's book cannot be bettered.' Daily Mail 'Fascinating' Stephen Venables, Daily Telegraph 'Evocative and entertaining' Financial Times 'A comprehensive, well-written account of a fascinating subject' Guardian

Turner and the Whale

Author : Jason Edwards
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178442286X
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (844 download)

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Download or read book Turner and the Whale written by Jason Edwards and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the guide to the exhibition, Turner and the Whale at the Hull Maritime Museum in Autumn 2017, which brings together for the first time in the UK, 3 of the 4 whaling pictures Turner was at work on in 1845-1846. As part of the city of Hull's year as the UK Capital of Culture the exhibition guide will bring the Turner whaling pictures into context with key parts of the Hull collections, including natural historical specimens, whaler carvings and Inuit art.

Turner

Author : Andrew Wilton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780500238301
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (383 download)

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Download or read book Turner written by Andrew Wilton and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than two hundred illustrations, an illustrated chronology, and critical artistic analysis trace the life of the nineteenth-century British landscape painter, describes the influences on his remarkable work, and attempts to portray his complex and mysterious personality.

Turner

Author : Franny Moyle
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9780241964569
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (645 download)

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Download or read book Turner written by Franny Moyle and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2017-05-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary life of J. M. W Turner, one of Britain's most admired, misunderstood and celebrated artists J. M. W. Turner is Britain's most famous landscape painter. Yet beyond his artistic achievements, little is known of the man himself and the events of his life: the tragic committal of his mother to a lunatic asylum, the personal sacrifices he made to effect his stratospheric rise, and the bizarre double life he chose to lead in the last years of his life. A near-mythical figure in his own lifetime, Franny Moyle tells the story of the man who was considered visionary at best and ludicrous at worst. A resolute adventurer, he found new ways of revealing Britain to the British, astounding his audience with his invention and intelligence. Set against the backdrop of the finest homes in Britain, the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution, this is an astonishing portrait of one of the most important figures in Western art and a vivid evocation of Britain and Europe in flux. Set against this spectacular and ultimately controversial career, Moyle also excavates the private Turner. Psychologically wounded as a child, by a family torn apart by death and mental illness, she suggests a man who could not embrace relationships fully until the very end of his life. Only then did he succumb to his love for the widowed Sophia Booth, concealing this all too human aspect of his life behind an assumed identity. She mines the poignancy of his final years, when, with his health ailing, Turner sought solace in a secret private life that had eluded him before and that he knew would scandalise the new generation of Victorians.

Ken Howard's Switzerland

Author : Ken Howard
Publisher : Royal Academy Books
ISBN 13 : 9781907533396
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (333 download)

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Download or read book Ken Howard's Switzerland written by Ken Howard and published by Royal Academy Books. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British painting past and present meet as Ken Howard (b. 1932), one of England’s most popular contemporary artists, follows the trail of world-renowned painter J.M.W. Turner, one of his heroes. Over the last several years Howard has been exploring the Swiss journeys of his illustrious predecessor, using Turner’s travels there as his inspiration for an exciting new body of work. This handsome book contains an introduction to Turner’s experience of the breathtaking Swiss lakes and mountains, some 100 striking new paintings by Howard, and photographs of him at work in the Alpine landscape.