Cover art for Turner's Modern World
Published
Rizzoli, May 2021
ISBN
9780847869343
Format
Hardcover, 240 pages
Dimensions
29.3cm × 24cm × 3cm

Turner's Modern World

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A landmark publication positions Turner as a pioneer in depicting contemporary life in the wake of dizzying changes resulting from industrialisation and modernisation. This monograph is tied to the first exhibition to highlight Turners contemporary imagery the most exceptional and distinctive aspect of his work.

Rather than making claims for Turner as a proto-modernist, it explores what constituted modernity during his lifetime and what it meant to be a modern artist. Turners career spanned the Napoleonic Wars, the rise of the British Empire, the birth of finance capitalism and modern industrialisation, as well as political, 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 far-reaching change and modernisation, these were often ignored by artists as they did not fit into established categories of pictorial representation. This publication shows Turner updating the language of art and transforming his style and practice to produce revelatory, definitive interpretations of modern subjects.

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