Turner’s classical landscapes – Kathleen Dukeley Nicholson Must-Have

Now famous for their immediate impact of color, light, and atmospheric effect, the landscapes of Romantic painter J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851) were at first the object of opposing critical claims: from one side the British artist was charged with painting pictures of nothing and very like, from the other, with allowing too much content to eclipse his presentation of nature. Taking this paradox as its starting point, Kathleen Nicholson’s richly illustrated book proposes a thorough revision of how we understand…