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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, the capacity of certain images to sustain repeated attention, and how pictures respond to, but also resist, their viewers' deepest wishes. 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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Very Good, T.J. Clark. ix, 260 p., ill. (some col.)
Review
'A revelatory exercise in art criticism...' -- The Independent on Sunday, December 24, 2006
'Clark's book is either the most pretentious nonsense ever written or a
work of genius. But which?' -- The Observer, October 19, 2006
'...an eloquent plea for a new way of experiencing and talking about art.' -- BBC Radio 3, 12th July 2006
'a characteristically mobile text - lucid, dogged, swankily sophisticated, intractably self-conscious, humorous, agonised, driven...' -- Tom Lubbock, The Independent, 24th July 2006
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- PublisherYale University Press
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0300117264
- ISBN 13 9780300117264
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages192
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