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Turner's Modern World

內容簡介

內容簡介 "Published to accompany a landmark exhibition of the art of J.M.W. Turner, this publication will highlight Turner's contemporary imagery, the most exceptional and distinctive aspect of his work throughout his career. Rather than making any claims for Turner's protomodernist credentials, it will explore what constituted modernity, and what it meant to be a modern artist, in his lifetime. 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 farreaching change and modernisation, these were often ignored by artists as they did not fit into established categories of pictorial representation. This exhibition and its accompanying publication will show Turner updating the language of art and transforming his style and practice to produce revelatory, definitive interpretations of modern subjects."

作者介紹

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

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最佳賣點

最佳賣點 : 本書聚焦透納畫作中最獨特、最引人注目的面向--透納的藝術生涯橫跨法國大革命與拿破崙戰爭、大英帝國興起、金融資本主義爆發；從帆船到蒸汽、從人力到機械的轉變，政治改革與科學、文化進步所帶來的劇變對他影響甚鉅。此書試圖探討他所處的時代，「現代性」究竟定義為何、又藝術家要如何成為「現代」的創作者。