Heaven On Earth by T. J. Clark
Painting and the Life to Come
A wide-ranging art-historical meditation that traces how Western painting has imagined the ‘life to come,’ arguing that pictorial representation has long served as a vehicle for collective hopes, anxieties and visions of a better world; through close readings of works across periods the book shows how images of paradise, redemption and communal destiny are shaped by political, social and secular pressures, and how the language of painting negotiates between devotional expectation and modern experience to keep alive competing ideas about what a desirable future might look like.
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- 2021
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