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Heaven on Earth - Painting and the Life to Come (Hardcover)
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Heaven on Earth - Painting and the Life to Come (Hardcover)
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The idea of heaven on earth haunts the human imagination. The day
will come, say believers, when the pain and confusion of mortal
life will give way to a transfigured community. Such a vision of
the world seems indelible. Even politics, some reckon, has not
escaped from the realm of the sacred: its dreams of the future
still borrow their imagery from the prophets. In Heaven on Earth,
T.J. Clark sets out to investigate the very different ways painting
has given form to the dream of God's kingdom come. He goes back to
the late Middle Ages and Renaissance - to Giotto in Padua, Bruegel
facing the horrors of religious war, Poussin painting the
Sacraments, Veronese unfolding the human comedy. Was it to
painting's advantage, is Clark's question, that in an age of
enforced orthodoxy (threats of hellfire, burnings at the stake)
artists could reflect on the powers and limitations of religion
without putting their thoughts into words? At the heart of the book
stands Bruegel's ironic but tender picture of The Land of
Cockaigne, but also Veronese's inscrutable Allegory of Love. The
story ends with Picasso's Fall of Icarus, made for UNESCO in 1958,
which already seems to signal - perhaps to prescribe - an age when
all futures are dead.
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