Turner's Watercolour Explorations, 1810-42
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Turner's Watercolour Explorations, 1810-42 by Eric Shanes
One of the largest sections of the Turner Bequest at the Tate Gallery is a group made up of watercolour sketches, early studios for finished works, and finished and unfinished drawings. Although many of the designs appear to be abstract, Turner was not creating non-representational images but was employing a rapid "visual shorthand". These pictures remain among Turner's most popular works. This volume explains the creative process that underlies these images and the interpretive techniques which have been used to analyze them. Many of their subjects are identified and the pictures are arranged according to their subject-matter and historical purpose.
Shanes, Eric: - Eric Shanes is himself a painter and a renowned art historian. Amongst his many articles on twentieth-century art are best-selling books on Constantin Brancusi and David Hockney. He is also a leading authority on J M W Turner on whom he has written nine best-selling books and catalogues. He is currently the Chairman of the Turner Society. He is much in demand all over Britain and the United States as a lecturer on art.
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ISBN 13 | 9781854372222 |
ISBN 10 | 185437222X |
Title | Turner's Watercolour Explorations, 1810-42 |
Author | Eric Shanes |
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Binding Type | Paperback |
Publisher | Tate Publishing |
Year published | 1997-06-01 |
Number of pages | 104 |
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