{"product_id":"those-passions","title":"Those Passions","description":"Condition: BRAND NEW\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780500025260\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2025\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'For those, though, who relish brilliant analysis of painting - as well as former students of art history, like me, for whom, at university, Clark was a sort of god - \u003ci\u003eThose Passions\u003c\/i\u003e will be essential reading. Its finest essays engage in depth with painting's subtle minutiae, observing and explaining how tiny touches can contribute to powerful overall effects. A bravura study of Henri Matisse's \u003ci\u003eWoman with a Hat\u003c\/i\u003e (1905) is a case in point. ... Likewise, his scintillating exposition of \u003ci\u003eThe Lion Hunt\u003c\/i\u003e (1855) by Eugène Delacroix - a detail from which, reproduced on a French poster which he bought in 1966, dominates his study' \u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'A timely study of the connection between art and politics' \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe careful distillation of a lifetime's writing by the internationally renowned art historian T.J. Clark, who addresses key issues of art's relationship with politics.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Is art obliged to engage with politics? If so, how? By taking sides in political struggle; by singing the song of the barricade, the new nation, the bombed city? Or by giving form to the deeper patterns of experience - the raw materials of 'society' - from which any politics is made? Using case studies stretching across the centuries, from Hieronymus Bosch to Jacques-Louis David and the French Revolution, from Walter Benjamin to Pier Paolo Pasolini, Those Passions aims to show how modern art has responded to the chaos and danger of modern life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In the book's three sections - 'Precursors', 'Moderns' and 'Modernities' - internationally renowned art historian T. J. Clark unpicks the na","brand":"RANDOM HOUSE","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":41508455317637,"sku":"PR388484","price":121.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0213\/3637\/files\/image_TKA7BPSTSJVF.jpg?v=1769788850","url":"https:\/\/smartfoxbooks.com.au\/products\/those-passions","provider":"Smartfox Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}