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 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 "That he restores a social and historical context to the work he discusses-from Manet's Musique aux Tuileries to Seurat's Grande Jatte-is not what is most original about Clark's book, elegant and telling as his delineation generally is. It is a book that will stir up passion and controversy."-David Harvey, Journal of Historical Geography It deserves the closest critical attention. " The Painting of Modern Life is a very good and very beautiful book.
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