- Paperback: 396 pages
- Publisher: Princeton University Press; Rev. Ed edition (18 Oct 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0691009031
- ISBN-13: 978-0691009032
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16.8 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 145,062 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The Painting of Modern Life is a very good and very beautiful book. It deserves the closest critical attention.... It is a book that will stir up passion and controversy. -- David Harvey, Journal of Historical Geography
That he restores a social and historical context to the work he discusses--from Manet's Musique aux Tuileries to Seurat's Grande Jatte--is not what is most original about Clark's book, elegant and telling as his delineation generally is.... What really lifts the book into a category of its own is the manner in which the assimilation of contextual detail and the observation of pictorial detail are worked together into an argument. -- Charles Harrison, Art Monthly
Mr. Clark ... writes with considerable verve; his interpretations of individual paintings are often illuminating, and he is soaked in the social history of the period with which he deals. -- John Gross, The New York Times
Like everything that T. J. Clark writes, [this] book bubbles with new ideas and old ideas freshly turned; it is intriguing, suggestive and well written. -- Eugen Weber, The Times Literary Supplement
That he restores a social and historical context to the work he discusses--from Manet's Musique aux Tuileries to Seurat's Grande Jatte--is not what is most original about Clark's book, elegant and telling as his delineation generally is.... What really lifts the book into a category of its own is the manner in which the assimilation of contextual detail and the observation of pictorial detail are worked together into an argument. -- Charles Harrison, Art Monthly
Mr. Clark ... writes with considerable verve; his interpretations of individual paintings are often illuminating, and he is soaked in the social history of the period with which he deals. -- John Gross, The New York Times
Like everything that T. J. Clark writes, [this] book bubbles with new ideas and old ideas freshly turned; it is intriguing, suggestive and well written. -- Eugen Weber, The Times Literary Supplement
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The Paris of the 1860s and 1870s was supposedly a brand-new city, equipped with boulevards, cafés, parks, and suburban pleasure grounds--the birthplace of those habits of commerce and leisure that constitute "modern life." Questioning those who view Impressionism solely in terms of artistic technique, T. J. Clark describes the painting of Manet, Degas, Seurat, and others as an attempt to give form to that modernity and seek out its typical representatives--be they bar-maids, boaters, prostitutes, sightseers, or petits bourgeois lunching on the grass. The central question of The Painting of Modern Life is this: did modern painting as it came into being celebrate the consumer-oriented culture of the Paris of Napoleon III, or open it to critical scrutiny? The revised edition of this classic book includes a new preface by the author.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Like it or not, TJ Clark's The Painting of Modern Life nowadays stands as a classic when it comes to look at late 19th-century French painting and think about art in terms of modernity, in relation with the avant-garde, bourgeois culture and values, and the urban environment.
TJ Clark's analysis is heavily connotated with Marxist theory and ways of thinking, which directs demonstrations and arguments in stimulating ways - if nonetheless slightly predictable ones.
In any case, if you are interested in Manet, and the representation of modernity, this is one book which cannot be ignored and will have to be read, if only for the sake of the literature review.
TJ Clark's analysis is heavily connotated with Marxist theory and ways of thinking, which directs demonstrations and arguments in stimulating ways - if nonetheless slightly predictable ones.
In any case, if you are interested in Manet, and the representation of modernity, this is one book which cannot be ignored and will have to be read, if only for the sake of the literature review.
3 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The author has done considerable reseasch into Parisian life and culture of the 1870s and this is extremely interesting.
He elides this with a Marxist critique of various Impressionist painters. He looks extremely closely at several paintings and this can be interesting.
However Clark does not air his conclusions with much clarity. His ramblings can make very tiring reading.
Having waded through it, moreover, I feel his conculsions are often highly specious (especially on Manet's Bar at the Folies Bergeres).
He elides this with a Marxist critique of various Impressionist painters. He looks extremely closely at several paintings and this can be interesting.
However Clark does not air his conclusions with much clarity. His ramblings can make very tiring reading.
Having waded through it, moreover, I feel his conculsions are often highly specious (especially on Manet's Bar at the Folies Bergeres).
0 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The book arrived within the advertised time frame, and is perfect condition except for one mark on the spine which I can completely live with.
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