T. J. Clark

Thames & Hudson's new, affordable, covetable 'Pocket Perspectives': beautifully illustrated essays by canonical writers – Financial Times A Financial Times Book of the Year: T.J. Clark offers profound insights on Bruegel's art, where we encounter a reality formed from wholly worldly materials, yet suspended between belief and disbelief. Renowned art historian T. J. Clark unveils the hidden depths of Bruegel...

The decade's most stimulating art book Financial Times A Guardian History Book of the Year For those, though, who relish brilliant analysis of painting - as well as former students of art history, like me, for whom, at university, Clark was a sort of god - Those Passions will be essential reading. Its finest essays engage in depth with painting's...

A Financial Times Book of the Year 2022 A penetrating analysis of the work of one of the most influential painters in the history of modern art by one of the world's most respected art historians. For more than a century, the art of Paul Cézanne was held to hold the key to modernity. His painting was a touchstone for...

The idea of heaven on earth haunts the human imagination. The day will come, say believers, when the pain and confusion of mortal life will give way to a transfigured community. Such a vision of the world seems indelible. Even politics, some reckon, has not escaped from the realm of the sacred: its dreams of the future still borrow their...

A renowned art historian confronts the specific powers of painting, and the hold of the visual image on the viewer's imagination. Why do we find ourselves returning to certain pictures time and again? What is it we are looking for? How does our understanding of an image change over time? In his latest book, The Sight of Death, T. J....