Plumly, Stanley

Elegy Landscapes: Constable and Turner and the Intimate Sublime

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ISBN 13:: 9780393651508
author:: Plumly, Stanley
format:: HardBack
publisher:: W. W. Norton & Company
language:: English
Publication Year:: 2018
Pages:: 208
Dimensions:: 21.8 x 16.5 x 2.5 centimetres (0
Genre:: Arts & Photography, Art, European
Condition:: New
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Stanley Plumly explores the lives and work of two influential English Romantic painters in this thought-provoking book. Renowned poet Plumly delves into the art of John Constable and J.M.W. Turner, examining how their personal experiences influenced their landscape paintings. The artist's lives are marked by tragedy: Constable's long illness and death of his wife, and Turner's loss of his supportive father. Their work takes on a new power in response to these events, with Constable's Hampstead cloud studies and Turner's Venetian watercolors and oils gaining prominence. Plumly probes the connection between the artists' lives and their paintings, revealing how each found the sublime in different worlds. This book is a meditation on the challenges of creating truly immortal works of art, as well as an exploration of the relationship between artist and artwork.

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