{"product_id":"heaven-on-earth-t-j-clark-9780500295540","title":"Heaven on Earth: Painting and the Life to Come","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this latest work, now available in paperback, respected art historian T.J. Clark sets out to investigate the different ways painters have depicted the dream of God's kingdom come: heaven descended to earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClark goes back to the late Middle Ages and Renaissance--to Giotto in Padua; Pieter Bruegel facing the horrors of religious war; Nicolas Poussin painting the Sacraments; and Paolo Veronese unfolding the human comedy, in particular his inscrutable \u003cem\u003eAllegory of Love\u003c\/em\u003e. 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 to reflect on the powers and limitations of religion without putting their thoughts into words? Clark takes the reader on a journey starting in the Middle Ages to the nuclear age with Pablo Picasso's \u003cem\u003eFall of Icarus\u003c\/em\u003e, made for UNESCO in 1958, where Picasso powerfully pictures art in an age when all futures are dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e T. J. Clark\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0500295549\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780500295540\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Thames \u0026amp; Hudson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/24\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d","brand":"T. J. Clark","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43988866892031,"sku":"9780500295540","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9e60be1c-8353-45a9-bebf-1fa361ffe840.jpg?v=1683296818","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/heaven-on-earth-t-j-clark-9780500295540","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}