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An 11 page research paper that describes the perspective of art critic T.J. Clark on the social history of art. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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on both Gustave Courbet and Edouard Manet, while also contrasting Clarks views against those of Clement Greenberg. T.J. Clark, art historian, is considered to be "one of the most important
figures in the development of social, as well as the new, art history."1 In his text Image of the People, Gustave Courbet and the 1848 Revolution, Clark asserts that in
the mid-nineteenth century, "the State, the public and the critics" were in consensus that "art had a political sense and intention."2 Due to this widespread societal assumption, "painting was encouraged,
repressed, hated and feared."3 Artists, such as Courbet and Daumier, not only exploited this assumption, but even enjoyed it.4 As these statements suggest, Clark situates Courbet within the sociopolitical milieu
of his era, as he proposes that the key to understanding the social history of art in nineteenth century France is to view it through the prism of the art.
Background biographical data Timothy James Clark is a art historian known for his Marxist approach.5 In fact, he is typically identified as the "significant Marxist art historian of the
poast-1945 period."6 Furthermore, Clark is responsible, "more than any other scholar," for questioning and redefining, "both theoretically and through empirical studies," precisely what "Marxist art history might actually mean."7
Currently, he is a Chancellors Professor of Modern Art at the University of California at Berkley.8 Born in Bristol in the United Kingdom, Clark
attended the British public school system and graduated from St. Johns College, Cambridge University, with first class distinction, in 1964.9 He earned his Ph.D. in art history from the Courtauld
Institute of Art, which is associated with the University of London, in 1973.10 Clarks texts Image of the People and The Painting of Modern Life provide a "new form
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