Turner: The Extraordinary Life and Momentous Times of J. M. W. Turner
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J.M.W. Turner is one of the most important figures in Western art, and his visionary work paved the way for a revolution in landscape painting. Over the course of his lifetime, Turner strove to liberate painting from an antiquated system of patronage. Bringing a new level of expression and color to his canvases, he paved the way for the modern artist.
Turner was very much a man of his changing era. In his lifetime, he saw Britain ravaged by Napoleonic wars, revived by the Industrial Revolution, and embarked upon a new moment of Imperial glory with the ascendancy of Queen Victoria. His own life embodied astonishing transformation. Born the son of a barber in Covent Garden, he was buried amid pomp and ceremony in St. Paul's Cathedral.
Turner was accepted into the prestigious Royal Academy at the height of the French Revolution when a climate of fear dominated Britain. Unable to travel abroad he explored at home, reimagining the landscape to create some of the most iconic scenes of his country. But his work always had a profound human element. When a moment of peace allowed travel into Europe, Turner was one of the first artists to capture the beauty of the Alps, to revive Venice as a subject, and to follow in Byron’s footsteps through the Rhine country.
While he was commercially successful for most of his career, Turner's personal life remained fraught. His mother suffered from mental illness and was committed to Bedlam. Turner never married but had several long-term mistresses and illegitimate daughters. His erotic drawings were numerous but were covered up by prurient Victorians after his death.
Turner's late, impressionistic work was held up by his Victorian detractors as example of a creeping madness. Affection for the artist’s work soured. John Ruskin, the greatest of all 19th century art critics, did what he could to rescue Turner’s reputation, but Turner’s very last works confounded even his greatest defender.
TURNER humanizes this surprising genius while placing him in his fascinating historical context. Franny Moyle brilliantly tells the story of the man to give us an astonishing portrait of the artist and a vivid evocation of Britain and Europe in flux.
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Franny Moyle. (2016). Turner: The Extraordinary Life and Momentous Times of J. M. W. Turner. Penguin Publishing Group.
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- The life of one of Western art's most admired and misunderstood painters
J.M.W. Turner is one of the most important figures in Western art, and his visionary work paved the way for a revolution in landscape painting. Over the course of his lifetime, Turner strove to liberate painting from an antiquated system of patronage. Bringing a new level of expression and color to his canvases, he paved the way for the modern artist.
Turner was very much a man of his changing era. In his lifetime, he saw Britain ravaged by Napoleonic wars, revived by the Industrial Revolution, and embarked upon a new moment of Imperial glory with the ascendancy of Queen Victoria. His own life embodied astonishing transformation. Born the son of a barber in Covent Garden, he was buried amid pomp and ceremony in St. Paul's Cathedral.
Turner was accepted into the prestigious Royal Academy at the height of the French Revolution when a climate of fear dominated Britain. Unable to travel abroad he explored at home, reimagining the landscape to create some of the most iconic scenes of his country. But his work always had a profound human element. When a moment of peace allowed travel into Europe, Turner was one of the first artists to capture the beauty of the Alps, to revive Venice as a subject, and to follow in Byron’s footsteps through the Rhine country.
While he was commercially successful for most of his career, Turner's personal life remained fraught. His mother suffered from mental illness and was committed to Bedlam. Turner never married but had several long-term mistresses and illegitimate daughters. His erotic drawings were numerous but were covered up by prurient Victorians after his death.
Turner's late, impressionistic work was held up by his Victorian detractors as example of a creeping madness. Affection for the artist’s work soured. John Ruskin, the greatest of all 19th century art critics, did what he could to rescue Turner’s reputation, but Turner’s very last works confounded even his greatest defender.
TURNER humanizes this surprising genius while placing him in his fascinating historical context. Franny Moyle brilliantly tells the story of the man to give us an astonishing portrait of the artist and a vivid evocation of Britain and Europe in flux. - reviews
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In this excellent biography, Moyle (Constance: The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs. Oscar Wilde) forges a largely successful effort to undo the traditional view of the 18th- and 19th-century British painter as a "reclusive, squalid, seedy, and eccentric" man with beady eyes and dirty secrets. Instead, Moyle argues, Turner was "an arch manipulator and central player in the great game of art." She traces his life from his earliest ambition to become a painter through his adventurous travels throughout Europe, witnessing the landscapes and seascapes he sketched and painted, to his final illnesses and last days. The backdrop is the French Revolution and the rise and fall of Napoleon Bonaparte. Rather than delving deeply into the lives of Turner's mentally ill mother, common-law wives, and neglected daughters, as other biographers have done, Moyle illuminates Turner's devotion to the Royal Academy, fellow artists, and art patrons, business acumen, and astonishing artistic innovations. She excels at art description, bringing his paintings vividly to the mind's eye (though she doesn't detail his erotic drawings). Readers looking for an art-lover's understanding of the man Moyle characterizes as "one of the most ambitious, inventive, technically brilliant, and popular artists of his time" will be well rewarded by this fine depiction. Agent: Georgina Capel, Georgina Capel Associates (U.K.).
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He was the finest landscape painter of his time, and he knew it. This new biography explains why.J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851) painted the sunrise over Norham Castle with as much invention as he depicted sea battles, moments in British history, and Welsh villagers struggling to get piglets into a boat in choppy shallows. Born to a barber and wig-maker, Turner became one of the youngest ever Academicians at London's Royal Academy and was so beloved by John Ruskin that the eminent art critic cataloged all 30,000 of the artist's works (including, to Ruskin's surprise, erotic drawings) after Turner's death. Like all good storytellers, Moyle (Constance: The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs. Oscar Wilde, 2012, etc.) begins with high drama: Turner's death in a state of "moral degradation" in a neighborhood of Chelsea. From there, she returns to Turner's Covent Garden youth and chronicles his successes and failures. This is a popular rather than scholarly work, light on technical analysis but heavy on scenes from Turner's life. Moyle does highlight Turner's technical innovations, including his experiments with backlit paintings and scioptic balls ("a kind of early wide-angle or fish-eye lens" used to create panoramic views), and she describes well such iconic paintings as The Battle of Trafalgar and The Fighting Temeraire. Her focus, however, is on personal stories: Turner's relationship with the widow Sarah Danby, with whom he fathered two daughters; his mother's incarceration in a mental asylum; and his controversial investment in the Dry Sugar Work near Spanish Town in Jamaica, "a cattle farm that depended on slavery for its labour." Throughout, the author enlivens her tale with perfect details, as when undertakers bringing Turner's large, expensive coffin to his Chelsea home can't get the casket through the door. Moyle writes that young Turner was "an instinctive and tireless networker, massively self-motivated, undeterrable in his determination." This excellent biography shows the benefits, and the pitfalls, of such single-minded obsession. COPYRIGHT(1) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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An authority on Abraham Lincoln whose books include the New York Times best-selling A. Lincoln, White expands his purview to include Ulysses S. Grant, whom he hopes to redeem from a lot of 20th-century bad press. Seven years of intensive research with primary sources went into the making of this book.
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The subtitle of this major biography is certainly not an exercise in over-billing. The life and career of J. M. W. Turner, considered one of the greatest British landscape painters, does, indeed, make for a fulfilling story, energetically followed by Moyle (Constance: The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs. Oscar Wilde, 2012) in what will be considered the definitive biography for many years to come. Turner's work, both oil and watercolor, fell into the Romantic movement, but his sketches and paintings are underscored here as singular achievements. Moyle achieves a lucid, incisive analysis of the stages in the development of Turner's technique as well as in the progress of his increasing appreciation by the art world and the art-collecting public. Turner saw increasing success as a storyteller through his paintings and sketches because it was important to him to give witness to the vast and intricate world with all its social complexities that he saw all around him. A shy, awkward boy evolved into a deeply feeling, mature adult very aware of art as both expression and commercial commodity, he was able to live the life he wanted and from it draw a living. A basic background in art history is all that is necessary to enjoy and learn from this monumental work.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2016, American Library Association.)
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Moyle (Constance; Secret Lives of the Pre-Raphaelites) digs deeply into the substantial published literature, as well as diaries, letters, and sketchbook notes, to paint a colorful and generous, yet well-balanced and thorough narrative of the life of British artist J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851). This is a particular challenge as much of Turner's own correspondence was destroyed at the time of his death by colleagues seeking to preserve his good reputation. A child prodigy, the youngest associate and then full member of the Royal Academy of Art (London), Turner was driven by a pursuit of artistic improvement through observation of others' work, traveling to new places, and experimenting with technique. Yet his prodigious, often unconventional output was not always appreciated; many contemporaries believed Turner suffered from mental instability in his later years. Moyle helps us to see the nuances behind this private, at times unpleasant, man in prose that is lively and colorful, thoroughly researched yet not academic in tone. VERDICT For readers intrigued by the recent film Mr. Turner who want more backstory, this volume provides a fascinating account placed within a rich context of historical and art world events. [See Prepub Alert, 4/3/16.]--Nancy B. Turner, Temple Univ. Lib., Philadelphia
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He was the finest landscape painter of his time, and he knew it. This new biography explains why.J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851) painted the sunrise over Norham Castle with as much invention as he depicted sea battles, moments in British history, and Welsh villagers struggling to get piglets into a boat in choppy shallows. Born to a barber and wig-maker, Turner became one of the youngest ever Academicians at London's Royal Academy and was so beloved by John Ruskin that the eminent art critic cataloged all 30,000 of the artist's works (including, to Ruskin's surprise, erotic drawings) after Turner's death. Like all good storytellers, Moyle (Constance: The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs. Oscar Wilde, 2012, etc.) begins with high drama: Turner's death in a state of "moral degradation" in a neighborhood of Chelsea. From there, she returns to Turner's Covent Garden youth and chronicles his successes and failures. This is a popular rather than scholarly work, light on technical analysis but heavy on scenes from Turner's life. Moyle does highlight Turner's technical innovations, including his experiments with backlit paintings and scioptic balls ("a kind of early wide-angle or fish-eye lens" used to create panoramic views), and she describes well such iconic paintings as The Battle of Trafalgar and The Fighting Temeraire. Her focus, however, is on personal stories: Turner's relationship with the widow Sarah Danby, with whom he fathered two daughters; his mother's incarceration in a mental asylum; and his controversial investment in the Dry Sugar Work near Spanish Town in Jamaica, "a cattle farm that depended on slavery for its labour." Throughout, the author enlivens her tale with perfect details, as when undertakers bringing Turner's large, expensive coffin to his Chelsea home can't get the casket through the door. Moyle writes that young Turner was "an instinctive and tireless networker, massively self-motivated, undeterrable in his determination." This excellent biography shows the benefits, and the pitfalls, of such single-minded obsession.COPYRIGHT(2016) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Turner was very much a man of his changing era. In his lifetime, he saw Britain ravaged by Napoleonic wars, revived by the Industrial Revolution, and embarked upon a new moment of Imperial glory with the ascendancy of Queen Victoria. His own life embodied astonishing transformation. Born the son of a barber in Covent Garden, he was buried amid pomp and ceremony in St. Paul's Cathedral.
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