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Crack Falling by Ernest Hunter (Foreword by); T. J. Clark; Paul C. Summerfield (Illustrator)
Category: Fiction
With a violent and abusive past, Flint Klemens lives on the fringes of society and within a sliver of his sanity. He's compromised by a corrupt Attorney General, drug pushers and businessmen who try their best to sideline him for speaking out. By chance he meets Gwennie, and they move interstate to star ...Show more
Frank Auerbach by T. J. Clark
Category: Art
Frank Auerbach (b.1931, Berlin) 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. His intentions have been consistent: 'What I wanted to do was to record the life that seemed to me to be passi ...Show more
Guy Debord by Anselm Jappe; T. J. Clark (Foreword by); Donald Nicholson-Smith (Translator)
Category: Biography
This is the first serious intellectual biography of Guy Debord, prime mover of the Situationist International (1957-1972) and author of The Society of the Spectacle, perhaps the seminal book of May 1968 in France. Anselm Jappe rejects recent attempts to set Debord up as a "postmodern" icon, arguing that ...Show more
Heaven on Earth by T. J. Clark
Category: Art and Design
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 drea ...Show more
Heaven on Earth..Life to Come - Paperbk by T. J. Clark
Category: Art and Design
In this latest work, now available in paperback, respected art historian T.J. Clark sets out to investigate the different ways painters have depicted the dream of God's kingdom come: heaven descended to earth.Clark goes back to the late Middle Ages and Renaissance--to Giotto in Padua; Pieter Bruegel fac ...Show more
Heretical Aesthetics - Pasolini on Painting by Alessandro Giammei (Editor); Ara H. Merjian (Editor); T. J. Clark (Preface by)
Category: Art
First collection on filmmaker and poet Pasolini's passion for painting. One of Europe's most mythologized Marxist intellectuals of the 20th century, Pier Paolo Pasolini was not only a poet, filmmaker, novelist and political martyr, he was also a keen critic of painting. An intermittently practicing ar ...Show more
If These Apples Should Fall: Cézanne and the Present by T. J. Clark
Category: Art and Design
For many artists and writers, the art of Paul Cézanne represents the key to modernity. His paintings were a touchstone for writers such as Samuel Beckett as much as for artists such as Henri Matisse. Rainer Maria Rilke revered him deeply, as did Pablo Picasso. They thought if they lost touch with his se ...Show more
Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life by T. J. Clark
Category: Art
This book accompanies a long overdue retrospective of the much-loved British painter L.S. Lowry (1887 - 1976), the first show held by a public institution in London since the artist's death. Bringing together around eighty works, the aim is to re-assess Lowry's contribution as part of a wider art histor ...Show more
Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life by T. J. Clark
Category: Art and Design
This book accompanies a long overdue retrospective of the much-loved British painter L.S. Lowry (1887 - 1976), the first show held by a public institution in London since the artist's death. Bringing together around eighty works, the aim is to re-assess Lowry's contribution as part of a wider art histor ...Show more
Picasso and Truth: From Cubism to Guernica by T. J. Clark
Category: Art and Design | Series: The A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts
"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 w ...Show more
T. J. Clark on Bruegel by T. J. Clark
Category: Art Literature | Series: Pocket Perspectives Ser.
Surprising, questioning, challenging, enriching: the Pocket Perspectives series presents timeless works by writers and thinkers who have shaped the conversation across the arts, visual culture, and history. Celebrating the undiminished vitality of their ideas today, these covetable and collectable littl ...Show more
THE SIGHT OF DEATH by CLARK T J
Category: Art and Design
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 b ...Show more