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T.J. Clark

T.J. Clark teaches art history at the University of California, Berkeley. His book about Courbet, Image of the People: Gustave Courbet and the 1848 Revolution, was published in 1973. His study of two Poussin landscapes, The Sight of Death: An Experiment in Art Writing, is out in paperback.

From the London Review dated 24 April 2008

The Special Motion of a Hand

Once or twice in a lifetime, if you are lucky, the whole madness of painting seems to pass in front of your eyes. It felt that way to me in New York this spring, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where two great exhibitions – one exploring Nicolas Poussin’s role in the invention of the genre we call ‘landscape’, the other an endless, stupendous retrospective of Gustave Courbet – are happening a few corridors apart. [ read more . . . ]

Selected bibliography

The Sight of Death: An Experiment in Art Writing (2006) Buy this book
Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism (1999)
The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers (1985)
Image of the People: Gustave Courbet and the 1848 Revolution (1973)
The Absolute Bourgeois: Artists and Politics in France, 1848-51 (1973)

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In the LRB archive

Poem: ‘All Night Sitting’ · 9 October 2008

Madame Matisse’s Hat · 14 August 2008

The Special Motion of a Hand: Courbet and Poussin at the Met · 24 April 2008

In a Pomegranate Chandelier · 21 September 2006

Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism by Benedict Anderson Buy this book
Under Three Flags: Anarchism and the Anti-Colonial Imagination by Benedict Anderson Buy this book

Looking at the Ceiling · 22 September 2005

The Mirror of the Gods: Classical Mythology in Renaissance Art by Malcolm Bull

Poem: ‘Manet and Monet and Marx and Freud’ · 31 March 2005

Three Poems · 22 January 2004

Not currently in the LRB archive

Reservations of the Marvellous · 22 June 2000

The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin, translated by Howard Eiland

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