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J.M.W. Turner

Peter Ackroyd - Art - 2005 - 192 pages
The second short biography in Peter Ackroyd's Brief Lives series concentrates on the life and work of perhaps the greatest and most original of all English Painters. James ...
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Eye Witness: Artists and Visual Documentation in Britain 1770-1830

Sam Smiles - Art and history - 2000 - 236 pages
"In Eye Witness, Sam Smiles examines the role of graphic arts in recording information about aspects of the social or material world. He discusses the claims of some artists ...
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Sir Joshua Reynolds: The Acquisition of Genius

Donato Esposito - Art - 2009 - 202 pages
"Published with an exhibition at Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, 21 November, 2009--20 February, 2010"--P. [4] of cover.
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Howard Hodgkin: Time and Place, 2001-2010

Howard Hodgkin, Sam Smiles, Museum of Modern Art (Oxford, England) - Art, Abstract - 2010 - 112 pages
This catalogue accompanies Hodgkin's major exhibition at Modern Art Oxford, 23rd June-5th September 2010. It presents a selection of 24 paintings from 2001-2010, offering a ...
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The Turner Book: Tate Essential Artists Series

Sam Smiles - Art - 2006 - 228 pages
J.M.W. Turner was a fascinating and enigmatic figure. Both astonishingly prolific and extraordinarily innovative, he is widely seen as the greatest British landscape painter of ...
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The Perfection of England: Artist Visitors to Devon C.1750-1870

Sam Smiles, Michael Pidgley, Royal Albert Memorial Museum - Art - 1995 - 132 pages
Often regarded as quintessentially English, Devon has for years provided artists with a rich sense of inspiration. The Perfection of England shows how Devon grew steadily in ...
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Late Style and Its Discontents: Essays in Art, Literature, and Music

Gordon McMullan, Sam Smiles - Art - 2016 - 285 pages
"Late style" is a critical term routinely deployed to characterise the work of selected authors, composers, and creative artists as they enter their last phase of production ...
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