Those passions : on art and politics /

"Those Passions unpicks the nature of capitalist societies since the fifteenth century and the art produced within them. It evaluates the central politics of appearance--the building of 'consumerism,' the arrival of the 24-hour image-led world, the continuously changing methods of sym...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Clark, T. J. (Timothy J.) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Thames & Hudson, 2025.
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Table of Contents:
  • Precursors. Bosch's Anthropology
  • Rembrandt's Face
  • Velazquez's Slave Language
  • Moderns. Sex and Politics According to David
  • Sex and Politics According to Delacroix
  • The Paris Arcades, or Should Benjamin Hae Read Marx?
  • Ensor's Anarchism
  • Madame Mattise's Hat
  • Beauty Lacks Strength: Hegel on the Art of his Century
  • Picasso and the English
  • L.S. Lowry, or Whatever Happened to the Painter of Modern Life?
  • Pollock's Smallness
  • Gerhard Richter's Grey on Grey
  • Modernities. Modernity and Terror with 'Retort', Joseph Matthews, Michael Watts, Iain Boal
  • From Print Capitalism to Screen Capitalism
  • The End of the Image-World
  • For a Left with No Future
  • Art and the 1917 Revolution
  • Why Art Can't Kill the Situationist International with Donald Nicholson-Smith
  • The Hand That Mocked
  • A Preface to Pasolini
  • 'And Everywhere We See Them Perishing': Picasso and the Twentieth Century.