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Reservations of the Marvellous

T.J. Clark

  • The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin, translated by Howard Eiland

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T.J. Clark teaches art history at the University of California, Berkeley. His book about Courbet, Image of the People: Gustave Courbet and the 1848 Revolution, was published in 1973. His study of two Poussin landscapes, The Sight of Death: An Experiment in Art Writing, is out in paperback.

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