T. J. Clark

Aug 10, 2023 | versobooks.com | T. J. Clark |Alessandro Giammei |Ara Merjian |Jacques Rancière

Blog postDaniel Ward interviews art historian T. J. Clark about Pier Paolo Pasolini, neorealism, the influence of the Communist Party on post-war Italian culture and the recently published collection of Pasolini writing on painting,Heretical Aesthetics. T. J. Clark and Dan Ward Daniel Ward: I feel I can only begin speaking with you about film, and Pasolini in particular, by asking about some closing lines from your book Farewell to an Idea.

Jun 10, 2023 | academic.oup.com | T. J. Clark

T. J. Clark’s two early books, The Absolute Bourgeois: Artists and Politics in France, 1848–1851 and Image of the People: Gustave Courbet and the 1848 Revolution (both Clarke 1973a, b) inaugurated an extremely influential tradition of leftist art history. And his The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and his Followers (Clarke 1999) transformed our understanding of Impressionism.