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Hiding Making - Showing Creation
The Studio from Turner to Tacita Dean
Edited by Rachel Esner, Sandra Kisters, and Ann-Sophie Lehmann
Amsterdam University Press, 2013
The artist, at least according to Honoré de Balzac, is at work when he seems to be at rest; his labor is not labor but repose. This observation provides a model for modern artists and their relationship to both their place of work—the studio—and what they do there. Examining the complex relationship between process, product, artistic identity, and the artist’s studio—in all its various manifestations—the contributors to this volume consider the dichotomy between conceptual and material aspects of art production. The essays here also explore the studio as a form of inspiration, meaning, function, and medium, from the nineteenth century up to the present. 
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The Re-creation of Landscape
A Study of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Constable, and Turner
James A. W. Heffernan
Dartmouth College Press, 2002
Re-creation of Landscape
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Turner and the Sublime
Andrew Wilton
University of Chicago Press, 1981
Throughout his life Turner was profoundly influenced by the eighteenth-century aesthetic theory of the "sublime." However, as Andrew Wilton now shows, the sublime was not merely a springboard for Turner's innovations; he reinterpreted the theory with great individualism and offered it to the world as a fresh and even more far-reaching philosophy of art.

The 140 illustrations, which include 32 in color, reproduce watercolors and prints that demonstrate the development of Turner's response to the sublime in areas as various as architecture, the picturesque, the "terrific," the sea, cities, mountains, and lakes. Many of the subjects have not previously been published.
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