Description
Until a few years ago, biographies of both J.M.W. Turner and John Ruskin had claimed that, in 1858, Ruskin burned bundles of erotic paintings and drawings by Turner to protect his posthumous reputation. However, in 2005 these works, held at Tate Britain, were re-appraised by Turner scholar Ian Warrell, who suggested that the sketches were not destroyed and that almost all of them are in the Tate collection. This illustrated book, the first exclusively devoted to Turner's erotic work, examines in detail this aspect of the artist's oeuvre.
Details
  • Author: Warrell, Ian
  • Publisher: Tate Enterprises Ltd
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publication Date: 12/06/2012
  • ISBN: 9781849760850
  • B-Code: B017392
  • Illustrated:
  • Pages: 144
  • Dimensions: 180x146mm
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