Sight of Death An Experiment in Art Writing

Name: Sight of Death An Experiment in Art Writing
Price: 34.5 USD
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ISBN: 9780300137583

ISBN-10: 0300137583

ISBN-13: 9780300137583

Edition: 2008

Authors: T. J. Clark

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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 ownLandscape 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…

Book details

Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 4/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.85" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 1.606
Language: English