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T.J. Clark & Caroline Arscott: Those Passions - On Art & Politics

T.J. Clark & Caroline Arscott: Those Passions - On Art & Politics

Update: 2025-09-24
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Art historian T.J. Clark began his academic career with two groundbreaking works on the art of mid-nineteenth century France, expounding materialist theory of art that has remained his watchword for five decades, with books on Poussin, Cézanne, Picasso and modernism. 


Those Passions: On Art and Politics (Thames and Hudson) distils a lifetime’s work through a series of case studies, from Hieronymus Bosch to Jacques-Louis David and the French Revolution, from Walter Benjamin to Pier Paolo Pasolini, exploring how art has always responded to the often chaotic and dangerous circumstances of its creation.


Clark was joined in conversation about his life and work by Caroline Arscott, Emeritus Professor of the History of Art at the Courtauld Institute.




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T.J. Clark & Caroline Arscott: Those Passions - On Art & Politics

T.J. Clark & Caroline Arscott: Those Passions - On Art & Politics

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