Young Mr Turner: The First Forty Years, 1775-1815 [Biography of J. M. W. Turner] by Eric Shanes 2016 ~ British Painter ~ Great Britain

Title: Young Mr Turner: The First Forty Years, 1775-1815

Author: Eric Shanes

Description: Blue cloth boards with silver lettering on spine. Dust jacket lightly rubbed; in an archival mylar sleeve. Near like new. xiii + 538 pages. 11.5 x 10 inches.

A definitive new biography of Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851), arguably Britain's greatest painter, by the painter, historian and founding editor of the academic journal Turner Studies, Eric Shanes (1944-2017).

Shanes was able to unearth a mass of new information, which enabled him to forge many fresh links and provide a great number of original insights. In order to intensify our grasp of the interrelationship between Turner the man and Turner the painter, this book contains over 450 illustrations that form an integral part of the story.

Within a strictly chronological framework, Turner's personal and creative developments are charted in tandem. offering an exploration of his strengths and weaknesses of character, and his intellectual and emotional complexity. Shanes provides an unrivaled account of Turner's creative aims and responses, his imaginative and technical evolution, his poetic aspirations and identifications, his strong sense of duty and his educative ambitions. No less closely scrutinized are Turner's mastery of art-world politics, his wider political outlook, his professional relationships, his sales, financial dealings and investments, his travels, and even the building in which he lived and worked.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Near Fine

Publisher: Yale University Press for The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Place: New Haven and London
Year: 2016

ISBN: 9780300140651

Keywords: painters, Great Britain, biography, Joseph Mallord William Turner, J. M. W. Turner,