Visiting Fellow Archive (2017-2018)
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ABOUT
The 2017-2018 Visiting Fellow is T.J. Clark, Professor Emeritus of Art History at the University of California, Berkeley.
T. J. Clark is one of the world’s most influential historians of Western art. He is professor Emeritus of Art History at the University of California, Berkeley, and he has taught at universities throughout the U.S. and the U.K. His writing addresses painters from Poussin to Picasso, with an emphasis on how these artists emerge within specific economic and political contexts. His many publications include: The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers (1985); Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism (1999); The Sight of Death: An Experiment in Art Writing (2006). He regularly writes art criticism in a range of publications including the London Review of Books and The New York Review of Books.
EVENTS
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018 at 4pm
LECTURE: Velázquez, Aesop, and War
Institute for the Humanities, Lower Level of Stevenson Hall
701 South Morgan
Wednesday, April 4th, 2018 at 3pm
SEMINAR: Cézanne and the Fetishism of Commodities
Institute for the Humanities, Lower Level of Stevenson Hall
701 South Morgan
Recommended Readings for Cézanne and the Fetishism of Commodities:
[T.J. Clark, “Cézanne and the Fetishism of Commodities”: Text of two master classes by TJ Clark, Birkbeck College, University of London, January 2018.]
[Reproduction of image for master class, “Still Life with Apples,” at Getty Museum]
[Karl Marx, Chapter 1 of Capital, Penguin/Pelican edition.]
[Meyer Schapiro, Cézanne, introduction and selected entries on paintings (with reproductions). ]
[Supplemental Cézanne Readings: Still Life with Plaster Cupid and Still Life with Peppermint Bottle]
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