本書是認識英國畫家透納（J. M. W. Turner）與其藝術風格的絕佳入門。從早期的風景水彩畫，到晚年大膽探索抽象表現，透納展現了非凡的創作能量。書中介紹他的生平、藝術轉變及他如何受旅行與其他畫家影響。新版增添彩圖與最新研究成果，是深入了解透納與英國黃金時代繪畫的理想選擇。With clear writing, this is the ideal introduction to J. M. W. Turner’s life and work for anyone interested in British painting in its golden age.Few British artists have ever achieved such a wide range of style in oil painting, watercolor, drawing, and engraving as J. M. W. Turner. This classic book in the World of Art series traces the artist’s career from youthful, picturesque views and watercolors of Gothic ruins, to romantic landscapes and historical compositions, to the darker abstracts of his later career. Though these late works were incomprehensible to his contemporaries, Turner is understood today as one of the greatest British painters because of these pioneering explorations into abstraction, which prefigured the art of the twentieth century. In Turner, Graham Reynolds weaves together the artist’s biography and criticism of his work thro
