J.M.W. Turner and the Subject of History - Rilegato

Costello, Leo

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ISBN 10: 075466922X ISBN 13: 9780754669227

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2012

Riassunto

J.M.W. Turner and the Subject of History is an in-depth consideration of the artist's complex response to the challenge of creating history paintings in the early nineteenth century. Structured around the linked themes of making and unmaking, of creation and destruction, this book examines how Turner's history paintings reveal changing notions of individual and collective identity at a time when the British Empire was simultaneously developing and fragmenting. Turner similarly emerges as a conflicted subject, one whose artistic modernism emerged out of a desire to both continue and exceed his eighteenth-century aesthetic background by responding to the altered political and historical circumstances of the nineteenth century.

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L'autore:

Leo Costello is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History at Rice University, USA.

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Book by Costello Leo

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 075466922X
• ISBN 13: 9780754669227
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 306