The Sight of Death: An Experiment in Art Writing - Brossura

Clark, T. J.

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ISBN 10: 0300137583 ISBN 13: 9780300137583

Casa editrice: Yale Univ Pr, 2008

Riassunto

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 T. J. Clark addresses these questions—and many more—in ways that steer art writing into new territory.

In early 2000 two extraordinary paintings by Poussin hung in the Getty Museum in a single room, Landscape with a Man Killed by a Snake (National Gallery, London) and the Getty's own Landscape with a Calm. Clark found himself returning to the gallery to look at these paintings morning after morning, and almost involuntarily he began to record his shifting responses in a notebook. The result is a riveting analysis of the two landscapes and their different views of life and death, but more, a chronicle of an investigation into the very nature of visual complexity. Clark’s meditations—sometimes directly personal, sometimes speaking to the wider politics of our present image-world—track the experience of viewing art through all its real-life twists and turns.

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Recensione:

'The Sight of Death is a characteristically mobile text lucid, dogged, swankily sophisticated, intractably self-conscious, humorous, agonised, driven.' --Tom Lubbock, The Independent

'The plain subtlety of the writing and the beautiful reproductions throughout make the experience of reading the book akin to the process Clark is describing ... It is not incidental that at a time when there is more visual art than ever before, most writing about the visual arts is either mind-numbingly pretentious and cliquey or boringly descriptive and without vision. Clarks book could not be more timely.' --Adam Phillips, The Observer

Forget blockbuster exhibitions: this is the way to see pictures.' --Anita Brookner, The Spectator

L'autore:

T. J. Clark is George C. and Helen N. Pardee Chair at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of several books including the highly influential volume, The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and his Followers.

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• Editore: Yale Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0300137583
• ISBN 13: 9780300137583
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 260