Turner's Modern and Ancient Ports: Passages Through Time Tapa blanda - 2017

The Frick Collection/Yale University Press, 2017. Oversized Paperback. As New. Unworn and unmarked.

New York: The Frick Collection / Yale University Press, 2017. Softcover. Very Good. Pastel yellow and color pictorial wraps, French flaps, 163 pp., color illus. "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 from naturalism and toward a new, poetic topography. This in-depth study of these two seminal paintings also addresses a wide selection of Turner's works in both oil and watercolor from the 1820s, placing them in the context of radical changes in British social and economic structures taking place… Leer más

New York, New Haven & London: The Frick Collection & Yale University Press. Qto., xii, 163 pages, colour illustrated. Looks unused a Fine copy. . Fine. Paperback. 2017.