{"product_id":"heaven-on-earth-paperback-by-t-j-clark-1","title":"Heaven on Earth Paperback by T.J. Clark","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n                \n                    \n                        \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                        \u003cul\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003eThames and Hudson\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(2020-11-24)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e288\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9780500021385\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e601.02\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e22.61 x 15.04 x 2.29\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                        \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                        \u003cbr\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePreeminent art historian\nT. J. Clark explores how\npainters since the Middle\nAges have portrayed\nthe divine on earth. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this latest work, respected art historian T. J. Clark sets out to investigate the different ways painting has depicted the dream of God’s kingdom come: heaven descended to earth. He goes back to the late Middle Ages and Renaissance—to Giotto in Padua, Bruegel facing the horrors of religious war, Poussin painting the Sacraments, and Veronese unfolding the human comedy, in particular his inscrutable \u003ci\u003eAllegory of Love\u003c\/i\u003e. Was it ultimately to painting’s advantage that in an age of orthodoxy and enforced censorship (threats of hellfire, burnings at the stake) artists found ways reflect on the powers and limitations of religion without putting their thoughts into words? In conclusion Clark brings us into the Nuclear Age with Picasso’s \u003ci\u003eFall of Icarus\u003c\/i\u003e, made for UNESCO in 1958, which already seems to signal, or even prescribe, an age when all futures are dead. \n\u003c\/p\u003e\n                        \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eT. J. Clark\u003c\/b\u003e is professor emeritus of the history of art at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of the seminal \u003ci\u003eThe Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFarewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism\u003c\/i\u003e. He writes art criticism regularly for the \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books.\u003c\/i\u003e He is also the author of \u003ci\u003eHeaven on Earth: Painting and the Life to Come\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIf These Apples Should Fall: Cézanne and the Present\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eT. J. Clark on Bruegel\u003c\/i\u003e, all published by Thames \u0026amp; Hudson.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                    \n                \n            \u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Best Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":46553799164065,"sku":"BBSNIJ9780500021385","price":24.65,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/2084\/5473\/files\/9780500295540.jpg?v=1781743461","url":"https:\/\/www.bestbookstore.ca\/products\/heaven-on-earth-paperback-by-t-j-clark-1","provider":"Best Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}