Turner's Modern World by By David Blayney Brown, Amy Concannon & Sam Smiles.

Accompanying Tate Britain’s landmark exhibition of the art of J.M.W. Turner, this beautiful hardback catalogue presents Turner as a pioneer painter of contemporary life, finding new ways to picture the momentous events and dizzying changes of modernisation.

The exhibition book highlights Turner’s contemporary imagery, the most exceptional and distinctive aspect of his work throughout his career. Rather than making any claims for Turner’s proto-modernist credentials, it explores what constituted modernity, and what it meant to be a modern artist in his lifetime.

David Blayney Brown is Senior Curator, Tate Britain.

Amy Concannon is Curator, Tate Britain.