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

About the Author

T.J. Clark is Professor Emeritus of the History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of The Painting of Modern Life and Farewell to an Idea. He writes art criticism regularly for the London Review of Books. His other publications include Image of the People, also published by Thames & Hudson.

Reviews

'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