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Late Works of J. M. W. Turner - The Artist and his Critics
The Artist and his Critics
Av Sam Smiles
Inbunden, 2020
424 kr
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An exploration of Turner's final, vital years, including new readings of some of his most significant paintingsThe paintings and drawings Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) produced from 1835 to his death in 1851 are seen by many as his most audacious and compelling work, a typical example …
Late Style and its Discontents
Essays in art, literature, and music
Av Sam Smiles, Gordon McMullan
E-bok, 2016
1413 kr
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''Late style'' is a critical term routinely deployed to characterise the work of selected authors, composers, and creative artists as they enter their last phase of production--often, but not only, in old age. Taken at face value, this terminology merely points to a chronological division in the …
Late Style and its Discontents
Essays in art, literature, and music
Av Sam Smiles, Gordon McMullan
E-bok, 2016
1413 kr
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''Late style'' is a critical term routinely deployed to characterise the work of selected authors, composers, and creative artists as they enter their last phase of production--often, but not only, in old age. Taken at face value, this terminology merely points to a chronological division in the …
Late Style and its Discontents
Essays in art, literature, and music
Av Gordon McMullan, Gordon McMullan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
2183 kr
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'Late style' is a critical term routinely deployed to characterise the work of selected authors, composers, and creative artists as they enter their last phase of production--often, but not only, in old age. Taken at face value, this terminology merely points to a chronological division in the …
J. M. W. Turner
The Making of a Modern Artist
Av Sam Smiles
Inbunden, 2007
1263 kr
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Alone of his contemporaries, J.M.W. Turner is commonly held to have prefigured modern painting, as signalled in the existence of The Turner Prize for contemporary art. Our celebration of his achievement is very different to what Victorian critics made of his art. This book shows how Turner was …
Samuel Palmer Revisited
Av Sam Smiles, Simon Shaw-Miller
Inbunden, 2010
2594 kr
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Varied and deliberately diverse, this group of essays provides a reassessment of the life and work of the popular nineteenth-century artist Samuel Palmer. While scholarly publications have been published recently which reassess Palmer's achievement, those works primarily consider the artist in …
Samuel Palmer Revisited
Av Sam Smiles, Simon Shaw-Miller
Häftad, 2019
849 kr
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Varied and deliberately diverse, this group of essays provides a reassessment of the life and work of the popular nineteenth-century artist Samuel Palmer. While scholarly publications have been published recently which reassess Palmer's achievement, those works primarily consider the artist in …
Eye Witness
Av Sam Smiles
Häftad, 2019
562 kr
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This title was first published in 2000: This study examines the ways in which very different visual fields might be said to have shared certain working assumptions concerning the truth of representation. It concentrates particularly on prints.
Eye Witness
Av Sam Smiles
Inbunden, 2017
2139 kr
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This title was first published in 2000: This study examines the ways in which very different visual fields might be said to have shared certain working assumptions concerning the truth of representation. It concentrates particularly on prints.
Eye Witness
Av Sam Smiles
E-bok, 2018
656 kr
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This title was first published in 2000: This study examines the ways in which very different visual fields might be said to have shared certain working assumptions concerning the truth of representation. It concentrates particularly on prints.
Eye Witness
Av Sam Smiles
E-bok, 2018
663 kr
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This title was first published in 2000: This study examines the ways in which very different visual fields might be said to have shared certain working assumptions concerning the truth of representation. It concentrates particularly on prints.
Envisioning the Past
Archaeology an the Image
Av Sam Smiles, Stephanie Moser
Häftad, 2004
614 kr
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Envisioning the Past: Archaeology and the Image is a groundbreaking collection of original essays that brings together archaeologists, art historians and anthropologists to provide new perspectives on the construction of knowledge concerning the antiquity of man. Covers a wide variety of time …
Envisioning the Past
Archaeology an the Image
Inbunden, 2004
1659 kr
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Envisioning the Past: Archaeology and the Image is a groundbreaking collection of original essays that brings together archaeologists, art historians and anthropologists to provide new perspectives on the construction of knowledge concerning the antiquity of man. Covers a wide variety of time …
Envisioning the Past
Archaeology an the Image
Av Stephanie Moser, Sam Smiles
E-bok, 2008
1929 kr
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Envisioning the Past: Archaeology and the Image is a groundbreaking collection of original essays that brings together archaeologists, art historians and anthropologists to provide new perspectives on the construction of knowledge concerning the antiquity of man. Covers a wide variety of time …
Turner's Modern World
Av David Blayney-Brown, Amy Concannon m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
257 kr
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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 …
Turner's Modern World
Av David Blayney-Brown, Amy Concannon m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
407 kr
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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 …
Flight and the Artistic Imagination
Av Sam Smiles
Häftad, 2012
215 kr
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Accompanying a major exhibition at Compton Verney, Warwickshire, this book examines the innate human desire to transcend the limitations of physiology and gravity – and to fly. Through an intriguing combination of paintings, sculpture, photographs, drawings, prints and video, including works by …
West Country to World's End
The South West in the Tudor Age
Av Susan Flavin, Karen Heard m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
252 kr
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During the Tudor Age the South West was famed for the innovation and endeavor of its people. Devon sea dogs Drake, Raleigh and Hawkins sailed to ‘World’s End’ in their pursuit of treasure and glory, Exeter’s Nicholas Hilliard produced exquisite miniature portraits of courtiers while fellow Exonian …
British Art: Ancient Landscapes
Av Sam Smiles
Häftad, 2016
313 kr
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are much less well known and have never been grouped together. The author aims to show the significance of antiquity for 20th-century artists, demonstrating how they responded to the observable features of prehistoric Britain and exploited their potential for imaginative re-interpretation. The …
Turner and the Slave Trade
Av Sam Smiles
Inbunden, 2025
407 kr
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Exploring Turner’s evolving response to slavery, from his investment in enslaved labour to his later denunciation in The Slave Ship While J. M. W. Turner’s iconic painting The Slave Ship (1840) is celebrated as a powerful criticism of the transatlantic trade in enslaved people, his personal and …
Image of Antiquity
Ancient Britain and the Romantic Imagination
Av Sam Smiles
Inbunden, 1994
446 kr
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How was the remote past of Britain imagined in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? What part did the visual arts play in that process? In this book Sam Smiles argues that the ancient Britain of the romantic imagination was a contested world, variously seen as a noble epoch of wisdom and …
Going Modern and Being British
Art, Architecture and Design in Devon c.1910-1960
Av Doug Fitch, David Jeremiah m. fl.
Häftad, 1998
295 kr
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This text represents a considered look at Devon's place in 20th- century British art, arguing that, although the county has often been portrayed as the antithesis of an urban, technological modernism, it has in fact embraced modernism in significant areas. By means of five essays and over 100 …
