Turner The Extraordinary Life and Momentous Times of Turner (Hardback) - The Extraordinary Life and Momentous Times of J. M. W. Turner

Informationen zum Autor Franny Moyle studied Art History at St John's College! Cambridge. She enjoyed a career in arts programming at the BBC that culminated in her becoming the corporation's first Commissioner for Arts and Culture. She is now a freelance executive producer and writer and lives in east London. She is the author of Constance: The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs Oscar Wilde and Desperate Romantics: The Private Lives of the Pre-Raphaelites . Klappentext A vibrant new history of one of England's greatest artists which! using new material! reveals the true man: a wily social strategist who negotiated the politics of patronage with verve and bravura to become a rich and successful artist. Zusammenfassung J M W Turner is Britain's most famous landscape painter. Yet beyond his artistic achievements! little is known of the man himself and the events of his life. A near mythical figure in his own lifetime! the author tells the story of the man who was considered visionary at best and ludicrous at worst.

Product details

• Authors: Franny Moyle, Moyle Franny
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.07.2016
• EAN: 9780670922697
• ISBN: 978-0-670-92269-7
• No. of pages: 500
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 240 mm x 40 mm
• Weight: 900 g
• Series: Penguin; Penguin
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; Biographien (div.), Turner, J.M. William