Throughout his life Turner was profoundly influenced by the eighteenth-century aesthetic theory of the "sublime." However, as Andrew Wilton now shows, the sublime was not merely a springboard for Turner's innovations; he reinterpreted the theory with great individualism and offered it to the world as a fresh and even more far-reaching philosophy of art.
The 140 illustrations, which include 32 in color, reproduce watercolors and prints that demonstrate the development of Turner's response to the sublime in areas as various as architecture, the picturesque, the "terrific," the sea, cities, mountains, and lakes. Many of the subjects have not previously been published.
- ISBN10 0226061892
- ISBN13 9780226061894
- Publish Date 1 June 1981 (first published 1 January 1980)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 26 July 2023
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Chicago Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 192
- Language English