The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and his Followers
"The Painting of Modern Lifeis a very good and very beautiful book. It deserves the closest critical attention.... It is a book that will stir up passion and controversy."--David Harvey,Journal of Historical Geography"That he restores a social and historical context to the work he discusses--from Manet'sMusique aux Tuileriesto Seurat'sGrande Jatte--is not what is most original about Clark's book, elegant and telling as his delineation generally is.... What really lifts the book into a category of its own is the manner in which the assimilation of contextual detail and the observation of pictorial detail are worked together into an argument."--Charles Harrison,Art Monthly"Mr. Clark ... writes with considerable verve; his interpretations of individual paintings are often illuminating, and he is soaked in the social history of the period with which he deals."--John Gross,The New York Times"Like everything that T. J. Clark writes, [this] book bubbles with new ideas and old ideas freshly turned; it is intriguing, suggestive and well written."--Eugen Weber,The Times Literary Supplement