by Jon Lackman | 31 July 2006 | Books
In the Independent of London, Tom Lubbock reviews The Sight of Death: an Experiment in Art Writing, “in which the British art historian TJ Clark records looking at two landscapes by Nicolas Poussin over several months. The book is in diary form, and records about 50 separate viewings, with their unfolding observations. I don’t know how many hours that makes, but the sessions seem long … What’s important about this book is simply that it takes ‘inexhaustibility’ seriously. It goes on until it reaches exhaustion, until the pictures have yielded all they can – at least on Clark’s own terms.”
