J. M. W. Turner : painting set free / edited by David Blayney Brown, Amy Concannon, and Sam Smiles ; with contributions from Rebecca Hellen, Matthew Imms, Brian Livesley, Nicola Moorby, and Joyce H. Townsend.

"This publication is issued on the occasion of the exhibition J.M.W. Turner: Painting Set Free, which is on view at Tate Britain (with the title Late Turner: Painting Set Free) from September 10, 2014 to January 25, 2015; at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, from February 24 to May 24, 2015, and at the de Young, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, from June 20 to September 20, 2015"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-244) and index.

Turner in and out of time / Sam Smiles -- The later life of Turner / Brian Livesley -- "Born again" / David Blayney Brown -- "Ain't they worth more?" / Amy Concannon -- Materials, technique and condition in Turner's later paintings / Rebecca Hellen, Joyce H Townsend -- Decline and fall / Sam Smiles -- Turner elsewhere / Nicola Moorby -- "Poetical" or "preposterous?" / David Blayney Brown -- Turner and modern history / Sam Smiles -- Squaring the circle / David Blayney Brown -- Horizons / Amy Concannon -- Reflection and retrospect / David Blayney Brown.

Extraordinarily inventive and enduringly influential, J. M. W. Turner (17751Ì851) produced his most important and famous pictures after the age of sixty, in the last fifteen years of his life. Demonstrating ongoing radicalism of technique and ever-original subject matter, these works show Turner constantly challenging his contemporaries while remaining keenly aware of the market for his art. Bringing together over sixty key oil paintings and watercolors, this major international loan exhibition is the first to focus on the unfettered creativity of Turner's final years.