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One of the world's most respected writers on art investigates the very different ways painting has given form to the afterlife.

Trade Review
'A more novel and compelling book about art’s version of the afterlife, and how it is inflected by worldly politics and reality, can hardly be imagined' - Observer, Books of the Year 2018
'Utopian modernism has been Clark’s lifetime study, to which this book is an imaginative, heartfelt coda ... gracefully skims a tightrope between attentive looking and political thinking' - Financial Times
'Remarkable … You don’t have to be religious to get it. You just have to have faith in the force of belief' - New York Times, Best Art Books of 2018
'Lavishly illustrated … there is some characteristically arresting phrase-making' - World of Interiors

Table of Contents
1. Giotto and the Angel • 2. Bruegel in Paradise • 3. Poussin and the Unbeliever • 4. Veronese’s Higher Beings • Conclusion: Picasso & the Fall • Coda: For a Left with No Future

Heaven on Earth

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    A Paperback / softback by T. J. Clark

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      Publisher Thames & Hudson Ltd
      Published 6 February 2020
      ISBN-13 9780500295540
      978-0500295540
      ISBN-10 0500295549
      Also in:
      Art & Photography Paintings and painting Religious and ceremonial arts

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      One of the world's most respected writers on art investigates the very different ways painting has given form to the afterlife.

      Trade Review
      'A more novel and compelling book about art’s version of the afterlife, and how it is inflected by worldly politics and reality, can hardly be imagined' - Observer, Books of the Year 2018
      'Utopian modernism has been Clark’s lifetime study, to which this book is an imaginative, heartfelt coda ... gracefully skims a tightrope between attentive looking and political thinking' - Financial Times
      'Remarkable … You don’t have to be religious to get it. You just have to have faith in the force of belief' - New York Times, Best Art Books of 2018
      'Lavishly illustrated … there is some characteristically arresting phrase-making' - World of Interiors

      Table of Contents
      1. Giotto and the Angel • 2. Bruegel in Paradise • 3. Poussin and the Unbeliever • 4. Veronese’s Higher Beings • Conclusion: Picasso & the Fall • Coda: For a Left with No Future

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