“... 1994 titled ‘In Defence of Abstract Expressionism’, a defence that is also a critique, T.J. Clark acknowledges the allure of this subjecthood but notes that it is petit bourgeois in aspiration, that Abstract Expressionism offers us an image of liberal individualism that advanced capitalism has already undone, ‘a last gasp of oxygen as the plane goes ...”

“... accurate and well documented account of Situationist practice has an important precedent in T.J. Clark’s The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers. Clark, briefly a member of the English section of the Situationist International in the late Sixties, argues in strict Situationist terms that ...”