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5) Turner
Author
Publisher
Thames and Hudson
Pub. Date
1989.
Physical Desc
38 pages, 79 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 17 cm
Language
English
9) Turner
Author
Series
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[1991]
Physical Desc
96 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.
Language
English
12) Turner
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 461 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
13) Ruskin on Turner
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1990]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
144 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Language
English
Publisher
Tate Pub
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
143 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"J.M.W. Turner is one of the greatest artists Britain has ever produced. His watercolours, with their extraordinary effects of shifting light and dramatic cloudscapes, are especially highly regarded. For the first time, the secrets of his technique are revealed, allowing present-day watercolourists to learn from his achievements. Uniquely, this book combines unrivalled knowledge of Turner's working methods from Tate curators and conservators with...
15) Turner's Britain
Author
Publisher
Merrell
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
208 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 29 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xii, 508 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The extraordinary life of J.M.W Turner, one of Britain's most admired, misunderstood and celebrated artists. Turner is Britain's most famous landscape painter. Yet beyond his artistic achievements, little is known of the man himself and the events of his life: the tragic committal of his mother to a lunatic asylum, the personal sacrifices he made to effect his stratospheric rise, and the bizarre double life he chose to lead in the last years of his...
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Alternating between 19th-century Europe and present-day New England, this novel, exploring the ever-evolving role of art in our lives, follows Henry who, stumbling upon a controversial painting of Helen of Troy that had been thought to be lost forever, is torn between wanting to sell the work and keeping something of beauty in his life.
18) J.M.W. Turner
Author
Series
Publisher
Windmill Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
32 pages : chiefly color illustrations, color map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
19) Mr. Turner
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (150 minutes) : sound, color ; 12 cm
Language
English
Description
Explores the last quarter century of the great if eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851). Profoundly affected by the death of his father, loved by a housekeeper he takes for granted and occasionally exploits sexually, he forms a close relationship with a seaside landlady with whom he eventually lives incognito in Chelsea, where he dies.
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