T. J. Clark Thames & Hudson, London, 2025 Just a little over fifty years ago, I wanted to read the most challenging new art history writing. And so I ...

The fraught, complex relationship between art and politics is forensically dissected in a series of essays written over 25 years by T. J. Clark, the professor emeritus of history of art at the ...

Writing about art and politics is, according to TJ Clark, “hell to do”. The acclaimed art historian certainly makes reading about them hard at times. So is it worth persisting with his latest ...

There seems little doubt that T.J. Clark significantly changed the atmosphere of the university art department. While Gill recalls Clark being highly engaged in discussing more traditional art-history ...

At nearly 80, the great art historian T.J. Clark has entered his late phase, magisterial but haunted. Beginning with his 1999 book on modernism, Farewell to an Idea (which contains my favorite ...

T.J. Clark. Princeton Univ./National Gallery of Art, $45 (329p) ISBN 978-0-691-15741-2. This masterful volume reproduces six lectures that U.C. Berkeley emeritus art historian Clark ...

Kenneth Clark in front of Renoir’s La Baigneuse Blonde, c.1933. Tate. It wasn’t just society that had failed. The 18th-century Romantic rebellion had seen artists declare independence of society.

TJ Clark takes the title of his newest work, Those Passions, from Shelley’s Ozymandias, in which artistic symbolism, political structures and the ruination of civilisations are intertwined. It’s a ...

T.J. Clark and Donald Nicholson-Smith on why art can't kill the Situationist International in October 79, Winter 1997. Modernism as the vanguard of a consumer aesthetic two views - Loren Goldner ...