The Fall of Anarchy: Politics and Anatomy in an Enigmatic Painting by J.M.W. Turner
The subject of Turner’s mysterious unfinished painting, known today as Death on a Pale Horse, is a problem that has baffled generations of scholars. It has been proposed that it is a response to the death of Turner’s father in 1829 or to the cholera outbreak of 1832 but these suggestions are at best...
| 出版年: | Tate Papers |
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| フォーマット: | 論文 |
| 言語: | 英語 |
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Tate
2016-06-01
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| オンライン･アクセス: | http://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/tate-papers/25/fall-of-anarchy-politics-anatomy-turner |
| 要約: | The subject of Turner’s mysterious unfinished painting, known today as Death on a Pale Horse, is a problem that has baffled generations of scholars. It has been proposed that it is a response to the death of Turner’s father in 1829 or to the cholera outbreak of 1832 but these suggestions are at best circumstantial. This paper offers a new interpretation of this enigmatic painting, linking it principally to the cause of political Reform. |
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| ISSN: | 1753-9854 |