TY  - BOOK
AU  - Finley,Gerald
TI  - Angel in the Sun: Turner's Vision of History
SN  - 9780773567313
AV  - ND497.T8 F54 1999 
U1  - 759.2 
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Montreal
PB  - McGill-Queen's University Press
KW  - Turner, J. M. W.-(Joseph Mallord William),-1775-1851-Criticism and interpretation
KW  - History in art
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- COLOUR PLATES -- 1 Turner and History: A Brief Introduction -- 2 The Louvre and the Royal Academy Lectures -- 3 Greece and Italy -- 4 The Dynamics of Myth and Legend -- 5 Rural Retreats -- 6 "In memory's mystic band": Commemorating the Past and Present -- 7 "Let my words / Out live the maker -- 8 Steam Triumphant: Bane or Benefit? -- 9 "The Terrible Muses": Astronomy and Geology -- 10 Biblical History: Fall to Apocalypse -- 11 Light and Colour: Theory and Practice -- 12 "The dark'ning Deluge": Shade and Darkness and Light and Colour, the Late Deluge Pictures -- EPILOGUE -- APPENDIX: Daniel Wilson and Regulus -- NOTES -- SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
N2  - J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851), widely known as perhaps the most eminent landscape painter of the romantic era, considered himself particularly a painter of historical landscapes. His distinctive landscapes were often enriched with symbolism and allegory that set them apart from those of his artist contemporaries and mystified his audiences. Angel in the Sun is an unconventional study of the richness and complexity of Turner's vision of history as revealed through his drawings and paintings
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