James Hamilton

Broschiertes Buch

Turner - A Life

The Life of Britain's Greatest Painter

Beschreibung

The definitive biography of one of Britain's greatest artists: 'Turner was a phenomenon, a one-man artistic revolution whose energy can be felt through the pages of this inspiring biography.' Daily Telegraph

Autor

James Hamilton, one of today's leading Turner scholars, is a writer, curator and painter. This pioneering biography of Turner, first published in 1997, was followed by Faraday: The Life (2002), London Lights: The Minds that Moved the City that Shook the World (2007), A Strange Business: Making Art and Money in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2014), and biographies of Thomas Gainsborough (2017) and John Constable (2022). He has organised a number of important exhibitions including Turner and the Scientists (1998), Turner's Britain (2003) and Turner and Italy (2008-09). During his career as an art gallery curator and director (1972-2013) he worked in Portsmouth, Wakefield, Sheffield, Leeds and the University of Birmingham. Exhibitions of his paintings were held at the Osborne Studio Gallery, London, in 2022 and 2024. James Hamilton is a Vice-President of the Turner Society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 129mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 316g
• ISBN-13: 9780340628119
• ISBN-10: 0340628111
• Artikelnr.: 22124030