THE SIGHT OF DEATH by T. J. Clark ( 9780300137583 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

THE SIGHT OF DEATH
AN EXPERIMENT IN ART WRITING

By:

T. J. Clark

Format:

Paperback

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£27.50

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ISBN 10:

0300137583

ISBN 13:

9780300137583

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Publisher:

YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

15 April, 2008

Pages:

272

Description:

Addresses questions such as: Why do we find ourselves returning to certain pictures time and again? What is it we are looking for? And how does our understanding of an image change over time?

Synopsis:

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.

Illustrations:

17 b-w + 33 color illus.

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Yale University Press

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