TJ Clark discusses 'The End of the Image-World'
Mon, 19 May 2014 18:00:00 IST - Mon, 19 May 2014 19:30:00 IST, 18:00
At Main room -Huston Film School
Organised by Huston Film School
Main Room, Huston School, NUI Galway. 6.00pm TJ Clark discusses 'The End of the Image-World': What would it be like for the present regime of the image to come to an end? Are there signs of this happening - of the commodity world beginning to lose its hold over its subjects? If there are, how should we take advantage of the new situation? All welcome but RSVP Louise Burke 091 495076 or hustonfilmschool@nuigalway.ie T. J. Clark was born in Bristol, England in 1943, took a B.A. in Modern History at Cambridge, and a Ph.D. in Art History at the Courtauld Institute, University of London. He taught at various places in England and the USA, and from 1988 to 2010 at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is George C. and Helen N. Pardee Chair Emeritus. Clark is the author of a series of books on the social character and formal dynamics of modern art: The Absolute Bourgeois: Artists and Politics in France 1848-1851 (1973); Image of the People: Gustave Courbet and the 1848 Revolution (1973); The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and his Followers (1984); and Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism (1999); as well as Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War (written with “Retort,” 2005); The Sight of Death: An Experiment in Art Writing (2006); Picasso and Truth: From Cubism to Guernica (2013); and a book accompanying an exhibition at Tate Britain, co-authored with Anne M. Wagner, Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life (2013). A book-cum-pamphlet on current politics, Por uma esquerda sem futuro, was published in Brazil in 2013. Digital Days series – Digital Arts & Humanities