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T. J. Clark in winter.(The Sight of Death: An Experiment in Art Writing)(Book review)

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| December 01, 2006 | Lewis, Michael J. | COPYRIGHT 2006 Foundation for Cultural Review. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

If only the wheel of fate rolled smoothly, we could all leap aboard with a good running start. But it does not; it whirls and jerks and spins in place, and to seize it for but a moment is to be lucky. For a very select few, however, it seems to stop and wait like an obliging private elevator. So it did for T. J. Clark, who in 1973 made his debut with a pair of path-breaking books: Image of the People: Gustave Courbet and the Second French Republic, 1848-1851 and The Absolute Bourgeois: Artists and Politics in France, 1848-1851 Here was art history of a new kind, one that looked just as much at art's political life as its aesthetic--perhaps more so. For Clark, then just ...

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