题 目：Turner's Modern World / 透纳的现代世界

作 者：David Blayney Brown

出 版：TATE，2021

装 帧：平装，240页

语 种：英语

尺 寸：23.3*28.6 cm

这本引人入胜的平装书是泰特不列颠美术馆的重磅透纳展的展览图录，将寻得了描绘重大事件与现代化带来的多重变化的新方法的透纳呈现为一名描绘其生活时代的开创性画家。

本图录重点呈现了透纳的时代画像，这是他整个创作生涯的所有作品中最为杰出且特别的一部分。本书并未对透纳的原始现代主义者资格作出任何断言，而是探索了什么构成了现代性，以及在他的生活年代，作为一名现代主义画家意味着什么。

透纳的创作生涯涵盖了转变社会并塑造了现代世界的一切：大革命与拿破仑战争、帝国时代、资产阶级的激增、从船帆到蒸汽以及从人力到机械制造的转变、政治改革和科技、文化上的进步。

虽然历史学家早就认识到了十八世纪晚期的工业及政治革命带来了巨大的变革与现代化，这些却通常会被艺术家忽视，因为这一切并不符合绘画表现的既定类别。这次展览展现了透纳是如何通过更新艺术语言并改变其风格和创作方式来创造这些对现代对象的极具启发性、充满确定性的解读的。

David Blayney Brown是泰特不列颠美术馆的高级策展人。

Amy Concannon是泰特不列颠美术馆的策展人。

Sam Smiles普利茅斯大学的艺术史荣休教授和埃克塞特大学艺术史及视觉文化项目主管。

Accompanying Tate Britain’s landmark exhibition of the art of J.M.W. Turner, this beautiful hardback catalogue presents Turner as a pioneer painter of contemporary life, finding new ways to picture the momentous events and dizzying changes of modernisation.

The exhibition book highlights Turner’s contemporary imagery, the most exceptional and distinctive aspect of his work throughout his career. Rather than making any claims for Turner’s proto-modernist credentials, it explores what constituted modernity, and what it meant to be a modern artist in his lifetime.

Turner’s career spanned revolution and the Napoleonic War, Empire, the explosion of finance capitalism, the transition from sail to steam and from manpower to mechanisation, political reform and scientific and cultural advances that transformed society and shaped the modern world. While historians have long recognised that the industrial and political revolutions of the late eighteenth century created massive change and modernisation, these were often ignored by artists as they did not fit into established categories of pictorial representation. This exhibition shows how Turner updated the language of art and transformed his style and practice to produce revelatory, definitive interpretations of modern subjects.