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Those Passions
On Art and Politics
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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 -...
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Those Passions is the careful distillation of a lifetime of writing about art's relationship to politics, by the internationally renowned art historian T. J. Clark.
The careful distillation of a lifetime's writing by the internationally renowned art historian T. J. Clark, who addresses key issues of art's relationship with politics: 'the decade's most stimulating art book' Financial Times
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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 subtle minutiae, observing and explaining how tiny touches can contribute to powerful overall effects. A bravura study of Henri Matisse's Woman with a Hat (1905) is a case in point. Likewise, his scintillating exposition of The Lion Hunt (1855) by Eugène Delacroix - a detail from which, reproduced on a French poster which he bought in 1966, dominates his study Sunday Telegraph
A timely study of the connection between art and politics Observer
The careful distillation of a lifetime's writing by the internationally renowned art historian T.J. Clark, who addresses key issues of art's relationship with politics.
Is art obliged to engage with politics? If so, how? By taking sides in political struggle; by singing the song of the barricade, the new nation, the bombed city? Or by giving form to the deeper patterns of experience - the raw materials of 'society' - from which any politics is made? Using case studies stretching across the centuries, from Hieronymus Bosch to Jacques-Louis David and the French Revolution, from Walter Benjamin to Pier Paolo Pasolini, Those Passions aims to show how modern art has responded to the chaos and danger of modern life.
In the book's three sections - 'Precursors', 'Moderns' and 'Modernities' - internationally renowned art historian T. J. Clark unpicks the nature of capitalist society and its visual culture. He tries to understand the politics of appearance which is now our natural home - the twists and turns of consumerism, the arrival of the 24-hour image-world, the changing modes of symbolic production and the ongoing saturation of life by pictures and 'data' - and take stock of our guilty love affair with the imagery of violence, our attitude to the dream-world of advertising, the power and pathos of screen time.
Written over the course of twenty-five years, these radical, provocative essays rethink issues central to art-making and political life today.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780500025260
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 20 February 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Illustration: 106 Illustrations, color
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 186.0mm
Height: 246.0mm
Weight: 1260g
Pages: 384
About the Author
T. J. Clark is Professor Emeritus of the History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of the seminal The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers (1984), Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism (1999) and The Sight of Death: An Experiment in Art Writing (2006). He writes art criticism regularly for the London Review of Books. His last book was If These Apples Should Fall: Cézanne and the Present (2022), also published by Thames & Hudson.
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