T. J. Clark Quotes

United Kingdom, Art Historian
April 12, 1943

Timothy James "T.J." Clark (born 12 April 1943 in Bristol, England) is a British art historian and writer. He taught art history in a number of universities in England and the United States, including Harvard and the University of California, Berkeley.

The value of a work of art cannot ultimately turn on the more or less of its subservience to ideology; for painting can be grandly subservient to the half-truths of the moment, doggedly servile, and yet be no less intense.

T. J. Clark
- Work
- Art
- Value
Modernism had two great wishes. It wanted its audience to be led toward a recognition of the social reality of the sign (away from the comforts of narrative and illusionism, was the claim); but equally it dreamed of turning the sign back to a bedrock of World/Nature/Sensation/Subjectivity which the to and fro of capitalism had all but destroyed.

T. J. Clark
- World
- Great
- Nature

If I can't have the proletariat as my chosen people any longer, at least capitalism remains my Satan.

T. J. Clark
- People
- Satan