Turner, magnificent liar.
Hazan| N° d'inventaire | 13537 |
| Format | 14 x 21 |
| Détails | 152 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2010 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782754104418 |
With its provocative title borrowed from the expression of a friend of the famous landscape artist, this monographic essay on Turner immediately places the famous landscape artist in a free relationship with appearances. For "the magnificent liar", the imitation of the world was less a question of fidelity than of the ability to transmute the visible into color and light. This personal and exalted vision of the world, which made Turner (1775-1851) the champion of the romantic landscape, Pierre Wat analyzes the components by revisiting the figure of the painter and his work in six chapters and as many portraits. The essay is accompanied by the first translation into French of one of Turner's major texts: "Backgrounds, introduction to Architecture and Landscape", where the artist develops his poetic conception of color, as well as the unpublished translation of the main testimony on Turner left by one of his contemporaries and friends: George Jones.
With its provocative title borrowed from the expression of a friend of the famous landscape artist, this monographic essay on Turner immediately places the famous landscape artist in a free relationship with appearances. For "the magnificent liar", the imitation of the world was less a question of fidelity than of the ability to transmute the visible into color and light. This personal and exalted vision of the world, which made Turner (1775-1851) the champion of the romantic landscape, Pierre Wat analyzes the components by revisiting the figure of the painter and his work in six chapters and as many portraits. The essay is accompanied by the first translation into French of one of Turner's major texts: "Backgrounds, introduction to Architecture and Landscape", where the artist develops his poetic conception of color, as well as the unpublished translation of the main testimony on Turner left by one of his contemporaries and friends: George Jones.