Turner As Draughtsman
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: April 30, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9780754600268
Subjects: Drawing & drawings; Individual artists; Great Britain; Art; Art & Art Instruction; Techniques - General; Europe; Techniques - Drawing; European; Individual Artist; (Joseph Mallord William),; 1775-1851; Aesthetics; Artists' preparatory studies; Criticism and interpretation; Turner, J. M. W.
First sentence: There have been few books devoted to the subject of Turner's draughtsmanship - to his use of pen, pencil or chalks, and to his skills as a deployer of line - as opposed to his perennially interesting achievements as painter in both oils and watercolour.