The Sight of Death: An Experiment in Art Writing
"'The Sight of Death is a characteristically mobile text - lucid, dogged, swankily sophisticated, intractably self-conscious, humorous, agonised, driven.' Tom Lubbock, The Independent 'The plain subtlety of the writing and the beautiful reproductions throughout make the experience of reading the book akin to the process Clark is describing... It is not incidental that at a time when there is more visual art than ever before, most writing about the visual arts is either mind-numbingly pretentious and cliquey or boringly descriptive and without vision. Clark's book could not be more timely.' Adam Phillips, The Observer 'Forget blockbuster exhibitions: this is the way to see pictures.' Anita Brookner, The Spectator 'A revelatory exercise in art criticism.' Matthew Sweet, The Independent on Sunday"