‘A name that makes it looked after’: Turner, Ruskin and the visual-verbal sublime

This article attempts to reconstitute some of the conditions of meaning in whichJ. M. W. Turner’s Snow StormSteamboat off a Harbour’s Mouth (exh. J 842) was produced and understood. It does so by examining the impact of that painting on the various kinds of commentary that it gave rise to in newspapers, magazines, books, letters, and diaries. It is one of my first published analyses of word-image relations, on this occasion between Turner and Ruskin.

Published in Word & Image, 5:4 (1989), 315-325, DOI: 10.1080/02666286.1989.10435412

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