Poem: ‘Manet and Monet and Marx and Freud’ 
T.J. Clark
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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.
Other articles by this contributor:
The Special Motion of a Hand · Courbet and Poussin at the Met
In a Pomegranate Chandelier · Benedict Anderson
Madame Matisse’s Hat · On Matisse
Looking at the Ceiling · A Savonarolan Bonfire
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