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A Financial Times Book of the Year 2022 A penetrating analysis of
the work of one of the most influential painters in the history of
modern art by one of the world's most respected art historians. For
more than a century the art of Paul Cezanne was held to hold the
key to modernity. His painting was a touchstone for Samuel Beckett
as much as Henri Matisse. Rilke revered him deeply, as did Picasso.
If we lost touch with his sense of life, they thought, we lost an
essential element in our self-understanding. If These Apples Should
Fall: Cezanne and the Present looks back on Cezanne from a moment -
our own - when such judgments may seem to need justifying. What was
it, the book asks, that held Cezanne's viewers spellbound? At the
heart of Cezanne lies a sense of disquiet: a homelessness haunting
the vividness, an anxiety underlying the appeal of colour. T. J.
Clark addresses this strangeness head-on, examining the art of
Pissarro, Matisse and others in relation to it. Above all, he
speaks to the uncanniness and beauty of Cezanne's achievement.
One of Europe's most mythologized Marxist intellectuals of the 20th
century, Pier Paolo Pasolini was not only a poet, filmmaker,
novelist, and political martyr. He was also a keen critic of
painting. An intermittently practicing artist in his own right,
Pasolini studied under the distinguished art historian Roberto
Longhi, whose lessons marked a life-long affinity for figurative
painting and its centrality to a particular cinematic sensibility.
Pasolini set out wilfully to "contaminate" art criticism with
semiotics, dialectology, and film theory, penning catalogue essays
and exhibition reviews alongside poems, autobiographical
meditations, and public lectures on painting. His fiercely
idiosyncratic blend of Communism and classicism, localism and civic
universalism, iconophilia and aesthetic "heresy," animated and
antagonized Cold War culture like few European contemporaries. This
book offers numerous texts previously available only in Italian,
each accompanied by an editorial note elucidating its place in the
tumultuous context of post-war Italian culture. Prefaced by the
renowned art historian T.J. Clark, a historical essay on Pasolini's
radical aesthetics anchors the anthology. One hundred years after
his birth, Heretical Aesthetics sheds light on one of the most
consequential aspects of Pasolini's intellectual life, further
illuminating a vast cinematic and poetic corpus along the way.
One of the world s most respected writers on art investigates the very different ways painting has given form to the afterlife.
The idea of heaven on earth haunts the human imagination. The day will come, saybelievers, when the pain and confusion of mortal life will give way to a transfiguredcommunity. Such a vision of the world seems indelible. Even politics, some reckon, hasnot escaped from the realm of the sacred: its dreams of the future still borrow theirimagery from the prophets. In Heaven on Earth, T.J. Clark sets out to investigate thevery different ways painting has given form to the dream of God s kingdom come. Hegoes back to the late Middle Ages and Renaissance to Giotto in Padua, Bruegel facingthe horrors of religious war, Poussin painting the Sacraments, Veronese unfolding thehuman comedy. Was it to painting s advantage, is Clark s question, that in an age ofenforced orthodoxy (threats of hellfire, burnings at the stake) artists could reflect onthe 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 Landof Cockaigne, and also Veronese s inscrutable Allegory of Love. The story ends withPicasso s Fall of Icarus, made for UNESCO in 1958, which already seems to signal perhaps to prescribe an age when all futures are dead.
The definitive guide for scientific entrepreneurs commercializing
sustainable technologies in the chemical sector Lacking the
considerable resources of multinational chemical companies,
entrepreneurs face a unique set of risks and challenges. How to
Commercialize Chemical Technologies for a Sustainable Future is
targeted at innovators who are embarking on the entrepreneurial
path with their sustainable chemical technology but are unsure of
what steps to take. This first-of-its-kind resource features
contributions from a diverse team of expert authors, including
engineers, venture capitalists, marketing specialists, intellectual
property professionals, regulatory experts, industry practitioners,
and many others. Accessible and highly practical, this real-world
guide covers each step of the technology commercialization process,
from market landscape analysis and financing to scale-up and
strategic partnering. Throughout the book, effective tactics and
strategies for growing a new venture are supported by case studies
highlighting the economic and environmental impact of successful
commercialization, and identifying the common mistakes that lead to
lost opportunities. Filled with invaluable advice and actionable
steps, this book: Uses valuation concepts, tools, and examples to
demonstrate that for a chemical technology to be sustainable it
must not only have market value but also confer benefits to human
well-being and the environment Offers templates and tools for
understanding what customers need, who the competition is and how
to successfully differentiate your product to those customers
Describes how to practically advance your technology from
conception all the way to commercial demonstration Presents
advantages and disadvantages of strategic partnering from the
perspective of the start-up and the larger industrial partner,
along with strategies to mitigate risks within a partnership
Provides an overview of the legal regulatory requirements for
bringing new chemicals to market in several key geographic regions,
as well as the impact of public policy on commercialization Offers
insights and practical strategies on intellectual property
management, raising investment, and operationalizing a startup
company How to Commercialize Chemical Technologies for a
Sustainable Future is essential reading for budding entrepreneurs
in chemistry, materials science, and chemical engineering looking
to bring their sustainable technologies to market. It is also a
valuable reference for investors, policymakers, regulators, and
other professionals.
Malcolm Bull offers a detailed analysis of nihilism in Nietzsche's
works. Along with accompanying commentaries by Cascardi and Clark,
he explores the significance of Nietzscheis views given the fact
that a wide range of readers have come to embrace his ideas as new
orthodoxy. There seem to be no anti-Nietzscheans today, but Bull
demonstrates that this wide embrace of Nietzsche runs counter to
the very meaning of nihilism as Nietzsche understood it.
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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Guy Debord (Paperback)
Anselm Jappe; Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith; Foreword by T.J. Clark
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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.
"Picasso and Truth" offers a breathtaking and original new look
at the most significant artist of the modern era. From Pablo
Picasso's early "The Blue Room" to the later "Guernica," eminent
art historian T. J. Clark offers a striking reassessment of the
artist's paintings from the 1920s and 1930s. Why was the space of a
room so basic to Picasso's worldview? And what happened to his art
when he began to feel that room-space become too confined--too
little exposed to the catastrophes of the twentieth century? Clark
explores the role of space and the interior, and the battle between
intimacy and monstrosity, in Picasso's art. Based on the A. W.
Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts delivered at the National Gallery
of Art, this lavishly illustrated volume remedies the biographical
and idolatrous tendencies of most studies on Picasso, reasserting
the structure and substance of the artist's work.
With compelling insight, Clark focuses on three central
works--the large-scale "Guitar and Mandolin on a Table" (1924),
"The Three Dancers" (1925), and "The Painter and His Model"
(1927)--and explores Picasso's answer to Nietzsche's belief that
the age-old commitment to truth was imploding in modern European
culture. Masterful in its historical contextualization, "Picasso
and Truth" rescues Picasso from the celebrity culture that
trivializes his accomplishments and returns us to the tragic vision
of his art--humane and appalling, naive and difficult, in mourning
for a lost nineteenth century, yet utterly exposed to the hell of
Europe between the wars."
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Crack Falling (Paperback)
T.J. Clark; Illustrated by Paul C Summerfield; Foreword by Ernest M Hunter
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The essays in this wide-ranging, beautifully illustrated volume
capture the theoretical range and scholarly rigor of recent
criticism that has fundamentally transformed the study of French
Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art. Readers are invited to
consider the profound issues and penetrating questions that lie
beneath this perennially popular body of work as the contributors
examine the art world of late nineteenth-century France - including
detailed looks at Monet, Manet, Pissarro, Degas, Cezanne, Morisot,
Seurat, Van Gogh, and Gauguin. The authors offer fascinating new
perspectives, placing the artworks from this period in wider social
and historical contexts. They explore these painters' pictorial and
market strategies, the critical reception and modern criteria the
paintings engendered, and the movement's historic role in the
formation of an avant-garde tradition. Their research reflects the
wealth of new documents, critical approaches, and scholarly
exhibitions that have fundamentally altered our understanding of
Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. These essays, several of
which have previously been familiar only to scholars, provide
instructive models of in-depth critical analysis and of the
competing art historical methods that have crucially reshaped the
field. Contributors of this title include: Carol Armstrong, T. J.
Clark, Stephen F. Eisenman, Tamar Garb, Nicholas Green, Robert L.
Herbert, John House, Mary Tompkins Lewis, Michel Melot, Linda
Nochlin, Richard Shiff, Debora Silverman, Paul Tucker, and Martha
Ward.
In February 2003 the tapestry copy of Picasso's Guernica hung in
the anteroom to the UN Security Council Chamber was curtained over,
at American insistence - not 'an appropriate backdrop', it was
explained, for official statements to the world media on the
forthcoming invasion of Iraq. The episode became an emblem: of the
state's relentless will to control the minutiae of appearance, as
part of - essential to - its drive to war. But was the crudity of
the attempt at censorship not counterproductive? And did not the
whole incident speak above all to the state's anxiety as it tried
to micro-manage the means of symbolic production? A manifesto for
the new anti-war generation, Afflicted Powers is the first formal
Situationist response to 9/11 and its aftermath. In a short,
readable intervention the Bay Area Report Collective take an
idiosyncratic and highly critical look at US foreign policy and the
methods it employs. They perpetuate the legacy of Guy Debord with
his hatred of the image-life, upon which so much of 9/11 and after
has revolved. Topics explored include 'Islamism and the Crisis of
the Secular Nation-State', 'Permanent War', 'Blood for Oil?'
quirkily significant book, which will resonate for years to come -
long after the current US administration has had its day. Afflicted
Powers is an account of world politics since 11 September 2001. It
aims above all to confront the perplexing doubleness of the present
-- its lethal mixture of atavism and new-fangledness. The world
careers backward into forms of ideological and geo-political combat
that call to mind now the Scramble for Africa, now the Wars of
Religion. But this brute return of the past is accompanied by an
equally monstrous political deployment of (and entrapment in) the
apparatus of a modern, not to say hypermodern, production of
appearances. Capital is on the move again. In the Middle East and
elsewhere it is attempting, nakedly, a new round of primitive
accumulation and enclosure. Now, however, it is obliged to do so in
unprecedented circumstances. for hegemony in the world of images;
and never before has the dominant world power been subject to real
catastrophe in the realm of the Spectacle, as happened to the US on
September 11. The present turn to empire and enclosure - what
Afflicted Powers terms military neo-liberalism - is confronted not
only by various forms of radical Islam but by a new kind of
vanguardism armed with the toolkit of spectacular politics. This
book attempts to rethink certain key aspects of the current global
struggle within this overall perspective, and to provide some
critical support for present and future oppositions. Its main
themes are: the Spectacle and September 11; blood for oil;
permanent war and illusory peace; the U.S.-Israel relationship;
revolutionary Islam; and modernity and terror.
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