Unseen Eyes
Julian Bell: The Clark Effect, 7 February 2019
Heaven on Earth: Painting and the Life to Come
by T.J. Clark.
Thames & Hudson, 288 pp., £24.95, October 2018,978 0 500 02138 5 Show More
by T.J. Clark.
Thames & Hudson, 288 pp., £24.95, October 2018,
“... People talk of painted eyes in portraits that ‘follow you round the room’. T.J. Clark, in the third of the six essays collected in his new book, Heaven on Earth, strangely inverts this. Studying the hall depicted in Poussin’s Sacrament of Marriage (now in Edinburgh), he senses that a painted figure’s eyes – eyes that are out of sight – are moving across the space, their attention straying sideways ... ”