J.M.W. Turner and the Subject of History

Contents: Introduction; 'A great and dreadful sea-fight': The Battle of Trafalgar (1806-8) and the end of contemporary history painting; 'The conception of a swamp'd world': destruction and creation in painting/history; 'This cross-fire of colours': Turner and the varnishing days; 'In Venice now': history, nature, and the body of the subject; The Slave Ship: painting/abolition/history; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

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• História: eventos específicos e tópicos
• Artistas individuais, arte monografias
• História dos estilos de arte e design: ~1800 até ~1900

British art history;nineteenth-century painting;visual modernism;collective identity theory;abolitionist art;empire and national identity;Turner history painting analysis