in art history from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London in 1973. John's College, Cambridge University, where he graduated with first class distinction in 1964. Clark is currently concerned with examining a particular type of pictorial thought, involving notions of human uprightness and the ground plane, which runs throughout the history of painting and which he has termed "ground level painting." Artists such as Nicolas Poussin, Pieter Bruegel, and Paolo Veronese figure prominently in his work on the subject.Ĭlarke was educated at Winchester College and Bristol Grammar School, before entering St. Pardee Chair as Professor of Modern Art at the University of California, Berkeley. He first acquired fame as a Marxist art historian. He is the son of senior civil servant Otto Clarke and elder brother of one-time British Home Secretary Charles Clarke.
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