Heaven on Earth

《天上人间》

Hardcover: 256页

出版社: Thames & Hudson; 1 (2018年11月6日)

语种： English

ISBN-10: 9780500021385

ISBN-13: 978-0500021385

ASIN: 0500021384

产品尺寸及重量: 153 x 234 x 27mm | 640g

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

内容简介

In this latest work, respected art historian T. J. Clark sets out to investigate the different ways painting has depicted the dream of God’s kingdom come: heaven descended to earth. He goes back to the late Middle Ages and Renaissance―to Giotto in Padua, Bruegel facing the horrors of religious war, Poussin painting the Sacraments, and Veronese unfolding the human comedy, in particular his inscrutable Allegory of Love. Was it ultimately to painting’s advantage that in an age of orthodoxy and enforced censorship (threats of hellfire, burnings at the stake) artists found ways reflect on the powers and limitations of religion without putting their thoughts into words? In conclusion Clark brings us into the Nuclear Age with Picasso’s Fall of Icarus, made for UNESCO in 1958, which already seems to signal, or even prescribe, an age when all futures are dead.