
Turner
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'A pleasure to read'
A.S. BYATT
'With splendid clarity and shrewd humour, James Hamilton evokes the visceral world of a great artist and a fascinating character'
MIKE LEIGH, Academy Award-winning director of Mr. Turner
J.M.W. Turner became an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1799, aged just twenty-four. As influential collectors competed to buy his paintings, he travelled widely - in an era defined by industrial change and social turbulence, he observed both landscape and people, gathering material for a series of works that would come to express the collective identity of Britain.
Blending vibrant biography and art history, James Hamilton paints a remarkable portrait of an eccentric and enigmatic figure. He examines the fascinating conflicts of Turner's life and legacy, revealing him to be a giant of the nineteenth century and a beacon for the twenty-first.
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A pleasure to read. -- A.S. Byatt * Sunday Express * Hamilton's life gives us a real person ... comprehensibly human and belonging clearly in the England of his time. -- Duncan Macmillan * Scotsman * Hamilton writes ... with gusto, bringing Turner to vivid three-dimensional life. * The Times * Turner was a phenomenon, a one-man artistic revolution whose energy can be felt through the pages of this inspiring biography. -- Alan Judd * Daily Telegraph * Hamilton's readable, unshowy life ... excellent. -- Philip Hensher * Mail on Sunday * An excellent biography - revealing on the life, perceptive on the art. * Independent on Sunday * Admirably clear -- Desmond Shawe-Taylor * Observer * A richly detailed biography . . . Hamilton maintains a steady course between academic respectability and an allowance for the drama and poignancy so clearly central to an accurate portrait of the subject * Los Angeles Times * Very satisfying . . . detailed, judicious and confidently grounded in the period * Washington Post * Lively * New Yorker * Well researched and fluidly written * New York Review of Books * With splendid clarity and shrewd humour, James Hamilton evokes the visceral world of a great artist and a fascinating character. * Mike Leigh *More details
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