The Emotional Truth of Mountains: Ruskin and J.M.W. Turner by Malcolm Andrews

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Turner’s 1836 Alpine Crossing and the Little Ice Age Portrayed in Val Veny and Val Ferret; a Geography of the Sublime by Martin P. Kirkbride, Susan P. Mains, Vanessa Brazier

Subjects: “…J.M.W. Turner…”
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La traversée alpine de Turner en 1836 et le petit âge glaciaire dépeints dans le Val Veny et le Val Ferret (massif du Mont-Blanc) by Martin P. Kirkbride, Susan P. Mains, Vanessa Brazier

Subjects: “…J.M.W. Turner…”
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Smugglers, Poachers and Wreckers in Nineteenth-Century English Painting by Christiana Payne

“…Paintings of poachers were usually didactic in tone, representing the poacher as guilty and ashamed; the smuggler, however, was depicted in a much more positive light, as a heroic ‘free trader’; while wreckers were sometimes shown as poor people exercising their right to subsistence, sometimes as relics of a savage past, before the improvements brought about by lighthouses and lifeboats. J. M. W. Turner, David Wilkie, Edwin Landseer and Charles Napier Hemy are amongst the artists discussed.…”
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Re-imagining the History of British Abolition: The New Historical Consciousness in Winsome Pinnock’s Rockets and Blue Lights by Xiting Qiao

“…By constructing the protagonist J. M. W. Turner as an anti-hero, Pinnock places Turner back in a Victorian ethical context to question the arbitrary construction of Turner’s heroism by the complicity of discourses of art history and abolitionism. …”
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