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Book Description: Published by British Museum Publications for the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Yale Center for British Art, the Trustees of the British Museum, London, 1980. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Near Fine -. No Jacket. Color & B/W Plates (illustrator). Not Indicated. The 140 illustrations, which include 32 in color, reproduce watercolors and prints which demonstrate the development of Turner's response to the Sublime in areas as various as Architecture, the Picturesque, the "Terrific", the Sea, Cities, Mountains and Lakes. Throughout his life Turner was profoundly influenced by the eighteenth-century aesthetic theory of the "sublime." However, as Andrew Wilton now shows, the sublime was not merely a springboard for Turner's innovations; he reinterpreted the theory with great individualism and offered it to the world as a fresh and even more far-reaching philosophy of art. The 140 illustrations, which include 32 in color, reproduce watercolors and prints that demonstrate the development of Turner's response to the sublime in areas as various as architecture, the picturesque, the "terrific," the sea, cities, mountains, and lakes. Many of the subjects have not previously been published. About the Author Andrew Wilton is curator of prints and drawings at the Yale Center for British Art. Bookseller Inventory # 028340

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