Word: turner
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...CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER, by William Styron. A vivid novel based on the diary of the man who led the unsuccessful bloody and bitter 1831 Negro slave revolt in Virginia...
...CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER, by William Styron. A vivid novel based on the diary of the man who led the 1831 Negro slave revolt in Virginia...
...Confessions of Nat Turner, Styron (1 last week...
Sense & Sensibility. In painting, the Romantic era in France produced the art of David, Ingres and Delacroix, but Anglo-Saxon Britain far more nearly mirrored the chaotic spirit of the age through the diverse brilliance of Gainsborough, Reynolds, Constable, Blake and Turner. How strikingly they and other British artists staked out the realm of the new sensibility in the Romantic era can be seen in a display of 236 oils, watercolors and drawings, assembled from collections in America and Europe, now at the Detroit Institute of Arts (see color pages). "British Masterpieces," which will be shown at the Philadelphia Museum...
...such as The Nightmare, predated Goya's grotesques by more than a decade and were immensely popular on the Continent. In their desire to get back to nature, the English Romantics also abandoned the ruins of Italy in favor of the English countryside and Alpine vistas. Crusty J.M.W. Turner seems to have been the first artist to visit Switzerland for the sake of sketching its mountains, but his Cottage Destroyed by an Avalanche is a vision of nature's destructive forces rather than the record of any event...