William Turner and the roots of modernism
Book series LOUNGE 2 – volume XIII
Editor: Kurt Ries
In painting, the term “landscape” did not exist until the 15th / 16th century. While the frescoes of Roman villas featured nature in their depictions of gardens, medieval art neglected it completely. It was the zeitgeist shift during the Renaissance that restored people’s interest in life before death, thus ringing in the radical changes that eventually led to the modern era. As people turned away from the afterlife, they began to explore nature, which led artists to incorporate perspective into their work.
The element of landscape that had previously been perceived as dark and hostile was now elevated to a sublime means to express aesthetic beauty. In this spirit, 44 artists from 22 countries have come together at the occasion of the 250th birthday of Willian Turner to celebrate the revolutionary shift in the significance of landscape painting with their boundless imagination. Turner was ahead of his time. The editor of this book has divided the artworks from around the world into chapters and added selected poems by Lord Byron, quotes, illustrations, and slogans describing the artwork presented. The result is a multifaceted homage from the animated perspective of modern artists.
International Artworks and Poems
Bilingual art gift book with 53 artworks and 4 poems from 22 countries.
Art and Poetry from around the world
With verses of poems by Lord Byron
During Turner’s lifetime, there were no professorships for Landscape Painting; it took until the 19th century for it to be recognized as an academic subject. Through his own commitment to studying nature, young Turner taught himself whatever skills he needed. Inspired by Lord Byron’s poetry, his first trip abroad took him to the Rhine River. Heinrich Heine who saw Byron as a poetic mentor also admired his work and translated some of it into German during his student days at Bonn University.
‘Landscapes for William Turner’
The printed book is available in the book trade and in internet bookshops.
- Publisher: Re Di Roma-Verlag
- Language: English, German
- Size: 21 x 21 cm
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10 : follows later
- ISBN-13 : follows later
Book participants can purchase any number of the book from the German publisher or bookseller Peecho at the reduced author’s price. Please find more information here!
Book design awards – as part of the book project:
- Cover – 1st Prize: Ivana Gagić Kičinbači – Croatia
- Back cover – 2nd Prize: Holger A. Baehr – Ireland, Wenxin Wang – Canada
- Titel page – 3rd Prize: Alina Jackiewicz-Kaczmarek – Poland
- Chapter pages – Honorable Mentions: Elisabeth Paré – Canada, Gregg Simpson – Canada, Ken Crost – USA, Louise Hävre – Sweden, Patricia Pascazzi – Argentina, Patrick Egger – Switzerland, Sylviane Leblond – France
Please see the images in the book!
