Painting as Event: Performance and gesture in late Turner

• Published in: Interfaces (Dijon. En ligne) Vol. 40; no. 40; pp. 11 - 27
• Main Author: Ibata, Hélène
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Université de Bourgogne 21.12.2018; Université de Bourgogne ; College of the Holy Cross ; Université de Paris
• Subjects: Art and art history; Humanities and Social Sciences; kinaesthesia; Maldiney (Henri); Merleau-Ponty (Maurice); painting techniques; pictorial space; Turner (J.M.W.); kinesthésie; kinaesthesia; technique picturale; espace pictural; Merleau-Ponty (Maurice); pictorial space; Maldiney (Henri); Turner (J.M.W.); painting techniques

In the last decades of his long career, J.M.W. Turner became increasingly prone to display his work on exhibition canvases, making the most of the varnishing days of the Royal Academy of Arts and British Institution to finish his paintings in public. These performative displays may be connected to t...