Turner's Modern World

David, Amy, Sam Blayney Brown, Concannon, Smiles

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Tate Publishing
01 February 2021

Art & Architecture; Individual artists, art monographs; Exhibition catalogues & specific collections

A landmark new presentation of the work of J.M.W. Turner, repositioning the great painter as a pioneering chronicler of contemporary life, and exploring what it really means to be a modern artist.

J.M.W. Turner's career spanned revolution and the Napoleonic War, Empire, the explosion of finance capitalism, the transition from sail to steam and from manpower to mechanisation, political reform and scientific and cultural advances that transformed society and shaped the modern world. While historians have long recognised that the industrial and political revolutions of the late eighteenth century inaugurated far reaching change and modernisation, these were often ignored by artists as they did not fit into established categories of pictorial representation.

This extraordinary new publication shows Turner updating the language of art and transforming his style and practice to produce revelatory, definitive interpretations of modern subjects. This is J.M.W. Turner as he has never been seen before.

Edited by: David Amy, Sam Blayney Brown, Concannon, Smiles
Imprint: Tate Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 286mm, Width: 233mm,
ISBN: 9781849767125
ISBN 10: 1849767122
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 01 February 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

David Blayney Brown is Senior Curator, Tate Britain. Amy Concannon is Curator, Tate Britain. Sam Smiles is Emeritus Professor of Art History, University of Plymouth, and Programme Director, Art History and Visual Culture, University of Exeter.