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Sight of Death : An Experiment in Art Writing by T. J. Clark (2006, Hardcover)

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Item specifics

Condition
Very Good: A book that has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious damage to the cover, ...
ISBN
9780300117264
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN-10
0300117264
ISBN-13
9780300117264
eBay Product ID (ePID)
50583016

Product Key Features

Book Title
Sight of Death : an Experiment in Art Writing
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2006
Topic
Individual Artists / General, Subjects & Themes / Landscapes & Seascapes, General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Art
Author
T.J. CLARK
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
29.7 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
6.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2005-033011
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
759.4
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., 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 questionsand many morein 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 meditationssometimes directly personal, sometimes speaking to the wider politics of our present image-worldtrack the experience of viewing art through all its real-life twists and turns. ", 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.
LC Classification Number
ND553.P8C57 2006

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