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 symbolic...

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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.