Turner and Leeds: Image of Industry
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		Author
		David Hill
		Format
		Hardback, 297 x 233 mm, 208 pages
		ISBN
		9781906600310
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		£34.99	£34.99	In Stock
		Synopsis
		Of all the cities of Britain, Leeds was one of the most important to Turner. He had important friends and patrons in the area and Leeds served as a base for his explorations of Yorkshire and the north. Over a period of nearly thirty years he made hundreds of sketches in the city and its environs, and from these made some of his most important pictures. In 1816 he painted a panoramic view of the city, which was the first industrial cityscape by any nationally recognised artist, literally the prototype image of industry. David Hill explores Turner's associations with Leeds, from Kirkstall Abbey to the great estates of Harewood and Farnley; though the scenery of Airedale and Wharfedale, to the developing city of Leeds itself. The book retraces Turner's footsteps at all of his sites, and reproduces all the most important paintings and sketches in the area. Turner and Leeds offers the most comprehensive treatment of his work in the area from its beginnings to its maturity, and charts Turner's developing understanding of the world changing as the agrarian past made room for an industrial future. About the author David Hill is Professor of the History of Art at the University of Leeds. In 1980 he selected and catalogued the exhibition of Turner in Yorkshire at York City Art Gallery, and subsequently curated exhibitions at Temple Newsam, Leeds City Art Gallery, Harewood House, the Museum der Stadt Dortmund, the Tate Gallery, London, the Archaeological Museum of Aosta, Italy, and the Bowes Museum. He is the author of a number of books on English Landscape painting, including In Turner's Footsteps (1984), John Constable's English Landscape (1985), Turner in the Alps (1992), Turner on the Thames (1993), Harewood Masterpieces: English Watercolours and Drawings (1995), Turner in the North (1996), Thomas Girtin: Genius in the North (1999), Turner, Mont Blanc and the Aosta Valley (2000) and Cotman in the North (2005).