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Turner and the Slave Trade - Couverture rigide

Smiles, Sam

 
9781913107512: Turner and the Slave Trade
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1913107515 ISBN 13 : 9781913107512
Editeur : Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2025

Synopsis

Exploring Turner's evolving response to slavery, from his investment in enslaved labour to his later denunciation in The Slave Ship   While J. M. W. Turner's iconic painting The Slave Ship (1840) is celebrated as a powerful criticism of the transatlantic trade in enslaved people, his personal and professional ties to slavery tell a more nuanced story. This book provides the first detailed analysis of Turner's evolving responses to slavery over his lifetime, from his financial investment in a Jamaican property worked by enslaved labourers to his later denunciation of the trade in his art.   Drawing on extensive archival research, Turner and the Slave Trade traces the artist's interactions with patrons tied to the plantation economy and examines the impact of abolitionist discourse on his work. Key chapters investigate The Slave Ship, its inspiration, and its contested interpretations while situating Turner within broader debates about art, slavery, and shifting public sentiment.   Offering a nuanced understanding of how art engages with history's most urgent issues, this important new study presents Turner as an exceptional yet complex figure, whose legacy is intertwined with the institution of slavery and its eventual abolition.   Distributed for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

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À propos de l'auteur

Sam Smiles is honorary professor at the University of Exeter, and the author of The Late Works of J. M. W. Turner: The Artist and his Critics (2020).

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Éditeur
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1913107515
ISBN 13 
9781913107512
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
247
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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