TY  - BOOK
AU  - Turner,J.M.W.
AU  - Brown,David Blayney
AU  - Concannon,Amy
AU  - Finch,James
AU  - Smiles,Sam
ED  - Tate Britain (Gallery),
ED  - Kimbell Art Museum,
ED  - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,
TI  - Turner's modern world
SN  - 9781849767132
AV  - ND497.T8 
PY  - 2020///
CY  - London
PB  - Tate Publishing
KW  - Turner, J. M. W.
KW  - Art, English
KW  - 18th century
N1  - Published on the occasion of the exhibition Turner's modern world held at Tate Britain, London, 28 October 2020-7 March 2021, Kimbell Museum of Art, Fort Worth, 9 May-5 September 2021 and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 11 October 2021-17 January 2022; Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - Published to accompany a landmark exhibition of the art of J.M.W. Turner, this publication will highlight Turner's contemporary imagery, the most exceptional and distinctive aspect of his work throughout his career. Rather than making any claims for Turner's protomodernist credentials, it will explore what constituted modernity, and what it meant to be a modern artist, in his lifetime. Turner's career spanned revolution and the Napoleonic War, Empire, the explosion of finance capitalism, the transition from sail to steam and from manpower to mechanisation, political reform and scientific and cultural advances that transformed society and shaped the modern world. While historians have long recognised that the industrial and political revolutions of the late eighteenth century inaugurated farreaching change and modernisation, these were often ignored by artists as they did not fit into established categories of pictorial representation. This exhibition and its accompanying publication will show Turner updating the language of art and transforming his style and practice to produce revelatory, definitive interpretations of modern subjects
ER  -