J.M.W. Turner and the Subject of History
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abolitionist art
Author_Leo Costello
British art history
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collective identity theory
Contemporary History Painting
De Loutherbourg
Ducal Palace
empire and national identity
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Gun Boats
Hanging Committee
History Painting
Image Courtesy National Gallery
La Fornarina
Landseer's Reference
Landseer’s Reference
Nelson Group
Nelson's Death
Nelson’s Death
nineteenth-century painting
Santa Maria Della Salute
Sir George Beaumont
Thomson's Poem
Thomson’s Poem
Turner history painting analysis
Turner's Depictions
Turner's Lifetime
Turner's Oeuvre
Turner's Painting
Turner's Relationship
Turner's Work
Turner’s Depictions
Turner’s Lifetime
Turner’s Oeuvre
Turner’s Painting
Turner’s Relationship
Turner’s Work
Varnishing Days
Venetian Pictures
Venice Pictures
visual modernism
Yellow Dwarf
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138248892
- Weight: 570g
- Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 09 Sep 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Leo Costello is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History at Rice University, USA.
