Turner and the sublime / Andrew Wilton.

Main entry:

Wilton, Andrew.

Title & Author:

Turner and the sublime / Andrew Wilton.

Edition:

[Phoenix ed.].

Publication:

Description:

192 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Notes:
Originally published in 1980 by British Museum Publications for an exhibition held at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Nov. 1, 1980-Jan. 4, 1981; Yale Center for British Art, Feb. 11-Apri. 19, 1981; and the British Museum, May 15-Sept. 20, 1981.
Includes bibliographical references (page 189) and index.
The classic sublime -- The landscape sublime -- The Turnerian sublime -- Catalogue.

Summary:

Throughout his life Turner was profoundly influenced by the eighteenth-century aesthetic theory of the "sublime." However, as Andrew Wilton now shows, the sublime was not merely a springboard for Turner's innovations; he reinterpreted the theory with great individualism and offered it to the world as a fresh and even more far-reaching philosophy of art. The 140 illustrations, which include 32 in color, reproduce watercolors and prints that demonstrate the development of Turner's response to the sublime in areas as various as architecture, the picturesque, the "terrific," the sea, cities, mountains, and lakes. Many of the subjects have not previously been published.

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Publisher description

ISBN:

0226061892 (pbk.)
9780226061894 (pbk.)

Subject:

Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851 Exhibitions.
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851 Catalogues.
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851
Turner, Joseph Mallord William 1775-1851
Turner, Joseph Mallord William.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
Illustrated works.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Art Gallery of Ontario.
Yale Center for British Art.
British Museum.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 42742
Call No.: 8968 A623; ID:89-B2635
Status: Available

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