T. J. Clark (art historian)

Timothy James Clark (often TJ Clark, born April 12, 1943 in Bristol, England ) is a British art historian who has emerged through significant works on the social history of art.

Clark was first famous as a Marxist art historian. He is a professor of art history at the University of California, Berkeley. It deals with a special form picturesque thinking, which he calls ground level painting. Artists that interest him in this context, especially, are Nicolas Poussin, Pieter Bruegel and Paolo Veronese.

Life

Clark attended the Bristol Grammar School before studying at St John 's College, Cambridge University. He graduated there in 1964 with honors. In 1973 he received his doctorate at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London and taught from 1967 to 1969 at the University of Essex and then from 1970 to 1974 at Camberwell College of Arts. During this time he was also a member of the British section of the Situationist International, from which he was expelled along with the other members of the British section. He was also a member of the group King Mob.

In 1973, he published two books, both of which were based on his dissertation and his career justified. The Absolute Bourgeois: Artists and Politics in France, 1848-1851 and Image of the People: Gustave Courbet and the Second French Republic, 1848-1851 were received as manifestos of a new history of art in the English language.

1974 its position as a visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles ( UCLA) has been transformed into that of a professor associate. Clark returned to the United Kingdom and 1976 he took over the management of the Department of Art History at Leeds University. 1980 Clark was a member of the Department of Fine Arts at Harvard University, which caused negative reactions conservative art historian at the same Department. His main opponent in Harvard was the Renaissance specialist Sydney Freedberg, with which it came into a public controversy. In 1980 Clark to a professorship at the University of California at Berkeley.

In the early 1980s, Clark wrote the essay Clement Greenberg 's Theory of Art, took a critical look me the prevailing modernist theory. This led to a scientific discussion of Michael Fried. From this exchange of a productive exchange of ideas between Clark and keep was built.

Despite earlier approaches to a social history of art in the English-speaking world (Frederick Antal ) Clarks work was groundbreaking for the implementation of a social history of art, which differs from the traditional style history and iconology. In his books he considered modern paintings as attempts to articulate the social and political conditions of modern life.

Awards

2006 Clark was awarded a " honary degree" from the Courtauld Institute of Art.

Writings

  • Image of the People: Gustave Courbet and the 1848 Revolution ( 1973), Revision: Thames & Hudson, 1982, ISBN 0 - 500-27245 -X
  • The Absolute Bourgeois: Artists and Politics in France, 1848-1851 (1973 ), dt Absolute Bourgeois: Artists and Politics in France 1848-1851, Reinbek: Rowohlt, 1981
  • The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and his Followers ( 1985), revised edition Princeton University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-691-00903-1
  • Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism, paperback edition, B & T 2001, ISBN 0-300-08910-4
  • Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War ( with UC Berkeley geography professor Michael Watts and two independent authors from the San Francisco Bay Area Iain Boal and Joseph Matthews), Verso Books 2005, ISBN 1-84467-031-7
  • The Sight of Death: An Experiment in Art Writing, Paperback edition, Yale University Press, 2008, ISBN 0-300-13758-3 - two paintings by Nicolas Poussin
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