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Book Description: Manchester University Press. Hardback. Book Condition: new. BRAND NEW, J. M. W. Turner: The Making of a Modern Artist, Sam Smiles, 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 reinvented to become the artist we recognise today. On Turner's death in 1851 he was already known as an adventurous, even baffling, painter. But when the Court of Chancery decreed that the contents of his studio should be given to the nation, another side of his art was revealed that effected a wholescale change in his reputation. This book acts as a guide to the reactions of art writers and curators from the 1850s to the 1960s as they attempted to come to terms with his work. It documents how Turner was interpreted and how his work was displayed in Britain, in Europe and in North America, concentrating on the ways in which his artistic identity was manipulated by art writers, by curators at the Tate and by designers of exhibitions for the British Council and other bodies. Bookseller Inventory # B9780719077081

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Book Description: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS, United Kingdom, 2007. Hardback. Book Condition: New. 240 x 170 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. 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 reinvented to become the artist we recognise today. On Turner's death in 1851 he was already known as an adventurous, even baffling, painter. But when the Court of Chancery decreed that the contents of his studio should be given to the nation, another side of his art was revealed that effected a wholescale change in his reputation. This book acts as a guide to the reactions of art writers and curators from the 1850s to the 1960s as they attempted to come to terms with his work. It documents how Turner was interpreted and how his work was displayed in Britain, in Europe and in North America, concentrating on the ways in which his artistic identity was manipulated by art writers, by curators at the Tate and by designers of exhibitions for the British Council and other bodies. Bookseller Inventory # AAR9780719077081

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Book Description: Manchester Univ Pr, 2007. Hardcover. Book Condition: Brand New. illustrated edition. 240 pages. 9.75x7.00x0.75 inches. In Stock. Bookseller Inventory # __0719077087

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Book Description: 2007. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. 178mm x 21mm x 245mm. 228 pages. 0.726. Bookseller Inventory # 9780719077081

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Book Description: 2007. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. 178mm x 21mm x 245mm. 228 pages. 0.726. Bookseller Inventory # 9780719077081

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