A renowned art historian confronts the specific powers of painting,
and the hold of the visual image on the viewer's imagination Why do
we find ourselves returning to certain pictures time and again?
What is it we are looking for? How does our understanding of an
image change over time? In his latest book T. J. Clark addresses
these questions-and many more-in ways that steer art writing into
new territory. In early 2000 two extraordinary paintings by Poussin
hung in the Getty Museum in a single room, Landscape with a Man
Killed by a Snake (National Gallery, London) and the Getty's own
Landscape with a Calm. Clark found himself returning to the gallery
to look at these paintings morning after morning, and almost
involuntarily he began to record his shifting responses in a
notebook. The result is a riveting analysis of the two landscapes
and their different views of life and death, but more, a chronicle
of an investigation into the very nature of visual complexity.
Clark's meditations-sometimes directly personal, sometimes speaking
to the wider politics of our present image-world-track the
experience of viewing art through all its real-life twists and
turns.
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