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Title: The Painting of Modern Life by Timothy J. Clark ISBN: 0-691-00903-1 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 18 October, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: As perfect as the paintings he discusses?
Comment: As a student of nineteenth century French painting, I think this may in fact be the finest book ever written on Parisian painting in the time of Haussmanization. Clark manages to offer an intelligent Marxist-based claim about class and the emerging Parisian landscape in the 60's without losing sight of the paintings themselves. While most scholars feel the genius of this book lies in his wonderful discussion of "what couldn't be seen in Olympia", I find the first chapter "Environs of Paris" equally fascinating in its discussion of Manet's Exposition Universelle of 1867. A MUST read for any lover of Parisian history or Manet.
Rating: 5
Summary: An Art History Book For Anyone Interested in History
Comment: I like to think of myself as a person who is curious about a wide range of things, especially in the realm of culture and the arts. Most art history books, however, put me right to sleep, with their endless catalogs of curatorial details about brushstrokes and paint textures and influences and provenance. These detailed analyses almost never situate the paintings in any sort of context and almost never explain WHY we should be interested in these details, other than to prove ourselves worthy connoiseurs to others in the know. Clark's book is a refreshing change from such mandarin drivel. Clark begins with a lengthy discussion of the social context of the paintings he is about to discuss and only then proceeds to extended analyses of particular paintings. Clark is interested in the larger ideas and trends of the period and, most important of all, actually USES the details of the paintings as evidence in the course of making an ARGUMENT about what the paintings mean (hint to other art historians: having an argument contributes significantly to the interest of a book or article). In addition, Clark's argument about the nature of the social changes occuring in France in the 1860's and 70's is compelling and thought-provoking (be forewarned: some Marxism is involved). I found myself actually learning things about the paintings Clark discusses, and looking at them over and over again, trying to find more in them, in much the same way as I would go back to a book or a poem after reading a good piece of literary criticism. I think this book will appeal to anyone who wants to learn more about either 19th-century French painting or 19th-century France. Clark is a stimulating and perceptive guide to this crucial period in the history of painting. Bravo!
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Title: The Painters of Modern Life (Arts & Letters) by Charles Baudelaire ISBN: 0714833657 Publisher: Phaidon Press Inc. Pub. Date: 24 August, 1995 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Image of the People: Gustave Courbet and the 1848 Revolution by T.J. Clark ISBN: 0520217454 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism by T. J. Clark ISBN: 0300089104 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $32.50 |
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Title: Impressionism: Art, Leisure, and Parisian Society by Robert L. Herbert ISBN: 0300050836 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1991 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: The Absolute Bourgeois: Artists and Politics in France 1848-1851 by T.J. Clark ISBN: 0520217446 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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