Sam Smiles Livres

Accompanying a major exhibition at Compton Verney, Warwickshire, this book examines the innate human desire to transcend the limitations of physiology and gravity – and to fly. Through an intriguing combination of paintings, sculpture, photographs, drawings, prints and video, including works by Leonardo da Vinci, José Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Paul Nash, Peter Lanyon and Hiraki Sawa, the reader will be provided with a unique overview of artists' creative responses to flight, from the earliest imaginings to an era in which space travel has allowed us to glimpse other worlds.

The book explores how Turner, often seen as a precursor to modern painting, has been reinterpreted over time. It contrasts contemporary appreciation of his work with the Victorian critics' views, highlighting the transformation of his legacy. Through this examination, the narrative reveals the processes that shaped Turner's identity as the influential artist recognized in today's art world, culminating in the establishment of The Turner Prize for contemporary art.

The collection of essays offers a nuanced reevaluation of Victorian artist Samuel Palmer, highlighting his contributions and significance in the broader art context. It delves into previously overlooked aspects of his life and work, situating his artistic achievements within larger discussions of landscape and cultural history. This diverse anthology aims to enrich the understanding of Palmer's influence and legacy in the art world.

This study examines the ways in which very different visual fields might be said to have shared certain working assumptions concerning the truth of representation. It concentrates particularly on prints.

Of interest to an art enthusiast, this book is both a practical manual for discovering and understanding the artist, J M W Turner, and a guide to his life and work. It examines in detail key works and the techniques by which Turner realised them and features revealing extracts from his notebooks, travel journals and poetry.

Reissued in the brand new hardback British Artists format, this is an ffordable introduction to one of the most important British painters in history. Includes full colour illustrations of all Turner's best-known work.

This is the first ever large-scale art exhibition on the subject of British castles. Steeped in history and legend, these extraordinary buildings exude a powerful and brooding presence. Turner, Constable, Girtin, Cotman, Ibbetson, Sandby, Varley and many others travelled to castles throughout Britain in search of the Picturesque. Castles, often sited in spectacular locations, were the perfect subject for the Romantic movement of the early 19th century that embraced the heroic past. The Gothic Revival was to spawn a new wave of castle building. Showcasing the finest historic and contemporary castle artists and combining history with art, this exhibition conjures the mystique, excitement and prestige of the castle from Iron Age hill forts to Victorian reproductions and fantasy castles. It will include famous and rarely seen works from public and private collections, including loans from the Tate, British Museum and the V & A.