T. J. Clark

Timothy J. Clark

Why do we keep returning to certain pictures? What is it we are looking for? How does our understanding of an image change over time? This investigates the nature of visual complexity, the capacity of certain images to sustain repeated attention, and how pictures respond and resist their viewers' wishes.

An Experiment in Art Writing

The Sight of Death

Anselm Jappe

Donald Nicholson-Smith

Guy Debord

Traces the development of modernism and its decline

Episodes from a History of Modernism

Farewell to an Idea

In this pioneering study, Clark looked at the inextricable links between modern art and history.

Gustave Courbet and the 1848 Revolution

Image of the People

Catherine Lampert

Frank Auerbach has made some of the most resonant, inventive, and perpetually alive paintings, both of people and of the urban landscapes near his studio in Camden Town, London. This publication accompanies a retrospective of Auerbach's work at Tate Britain and the Bonn Kunstmuseum in 2015.

Frank Auerbach

Anne M. Wagner

This is a timely study of the life and work of L.S. Lowry, as well as his contribution to the development of 20th-century British art.

Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life

Michael Watts

Iain A. Boal

Retort (Organization : San Francisco, Calif.)

Joseph Matthews

"Afflicted Powers is an account of world politics since September 11, 2001. It aims to confront the perplexing doubleness of the present - its lethal mixture of atavism and new-fangledness. A brute return of the past, calling to mind now the Scramble for Africa, now the Wars of Religion, is accompanied by an equally monstrous political deployment of (and entrapment in) the apparatus of a hyper-modern production of appearances."--BOOK JACKET.

Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War

Afflicted Powers

Preeminent art historian T.J. Clark explores how painters since the Middle Ages have portrayed the divine on earth.

Painting and the Life to Come

Heaven on Earth

"Picasso and Truth" offers a breathtaking and original new look at the most significant artist of the modern era. From Pablo Picasso's early "The Blue Room" to the later "Guernica", eminent art historian T. J. Clark offers a striking reassessment of the artist's paintings from the 1920s and 1930s. Why was the space of a room so basic to Picasso's worldview? And what happened to his art when he began to feel that room-space become too confined--too little exposed to the catastrophes of the twentieth century? Clark explores the role of space and the interior, and the battle between intimacy and monstrosity, in Picasso's art. Based on the A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts delivered at the National Gallery of Art, this lavishly illustrated volume remedies the biographical and idolatrous tendencies of most studies on Picasso, reasserting the structure and substance of the artist's work. With compelling insight, Clark focuses on three central works--the large-scale "Guitar and Mandolin on a Table" (1924), "The Three Dancers" (1925), and "The Painter and His Model" (1927)--and explores Picasso's answer to Nietzsche's belief that the age-old commitment to truth was imploding in modern European culture. Masterful in its historical contextualization, "Picasso and Truth" rescues Picasso from the celebrity culture that trivializes his accomplishments and returns us to the tragic vision of his art--humane and appalling, naive and difficult, in mourning for a lost nineteenth century, yet utterly exposed to the hell of Europe between the wars.

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