Turner - Brief Lives

Informationen zum Autor Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning historian! biographer! novelist! poet and broadcaster. He is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers London: The Biography! Thames: Sacred River and London Under; biographies of figures including Charles Dickens! William Blake! Charlie Chaplin and Alfred Hitchcock; and a multi-volume history of England . He has won the Whitbread Biography Award! the Royal Society of Literature's William Heinemann Award! the James Tait Black Memorial Prize! the Guardian Fiction Prize! the Somerset Maugham Award and the South Bank Prize for Literature. He holds a CBE for services to literature. Klappentext The second in Ackroyd's series destils his knowledge and inspiration in a dazzling short life of perhaps the greatest and most original of all English painters. Zusammenfassung James Mallord William Turner (1775- 1851) was both the most admired and the most derided painter of his time. His vision soon outran the taste of his contemporaries! as he began to experiment in pure forms of light and colour! producing masterpieces of impassioned tonality that were still unsold at the time of his death.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Ackroyd
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 23.03.2006
• EAN: 9780099287285
• ISBN: 978-0-09-928728-5
• No. of pages: 161
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 197 mm x 14 mm
• Series: Vintage; Vintage
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Biographien (div.), Turner, J.M. William