{"product_id":"turner-9781400060153","title":"Turner","description":"\u003cp\u003eJ.M.W. Turner was a painter whose treatment of light put him squarely in the pantheon of the worlds preeminent artists  but his character was a tangle of fascinating contradictions. While he could be coarse and rude  manipulative  ill-mannered  and inarticulate  he was also generous  questioning  and humane  and he displayed through his work a hitherto unrecognized optimism about the course of human progress. With two illegitimate daughters and several mistresses whom Turner made a career of not including in his public life  the painter was also known for his entrepreneurial cunning  demanding and receiving the highest prices for his work.  Over the course of sixty years  Turner traveled thousands of miles to seek out the landscapes of England and Europe. He was drawn overwhelmingly to coasts  to the electrifying rub of the land with the sea  and he regularly observed their union from the cliff  the beach  the pier  or from a small boat. Fueled by his prodigious talent  Turner revealed to himself and others the personality of the British and European landscapes and the moods of the surrounding seas. He kept no diary  but his many sketchbooks are intensely autobiographical  giving clues to his techniques  his itineraries  his income and expenditures  and his struggle to master the theories of perspective.  In Turner  James Hamilton takes advantage of new material discovered since the 1975 bicentennial celebration of the artists birth  paying particular attention to the diary of sketches with which Turner narrated his life. Hamiltons textured portrait is fully complemented by a sixteen-page illustrations insert  including many color reproductions of Turners most famous landscape paintings. Seamlessly blending vibrant biography with astute art criticism  Hamilton writes with energy  style  and erudition to address the contradictions of this great artist.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67961671024693,"sku":"ByrdShop_140006015X","price":27.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781400060153.jpg?v=1794511351","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/turner-9781400060153","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}