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Turner: Imagination and Reality

Lawrence Gowing

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Andrew Graham-Dixon loved it
This catalogue was published on the occasion of the first ever exhibition of a long-dead painter at the Museum of Modern Art. It's only about thirty pages, but it is utterly brilliant.

on fivebooks.com · 31 Jan 2019

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.