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To accompany a landmark exhibition of the art of J.M.W. Turner, this book presents Turner as a pioneer painter of contemporary life, finding new ways to picture the momentous events and dizzying changes of modernisation.

To accompany a landmark exhibition of the art of J.M.W. Turner, this book presents Turner as a pioneer painter of contemporary life, finding new ways to picture the momentous events and dizzying changes of modernization.

When the prolific British painter Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) died at the age of 76, his contemporaries held a generally negative view of his recent work, describing it as indulgent, eccentric, and even repulsive. But over the past century, a number of curators and critics have reassessed Turner's late paintings. Instead of finding his employment of shimmering color to evoke light unpleasant or unskilled, they have seen it as a p...