Those Passions: On art, politics, and psychoanalysis
Event details
Coinciding with the publication of T. J. Clark’s Those Passions: On Art and Politics (Thames & Hudson, 2025), Adam Phillips and Clark will be in conversation about art, politics, and psychoanalysis.
This event is co-hosted with the Department of English and Related Literature.
Date & Time: Wednesday, 7 May 2025, 5pm
Location: Bowland Auditorium, BS/005, Berrick Saul Building, Campus West, University of York
T.J. Clark is professor emeritus of the History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of many books, including The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Meant and his Followers (1984), Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism (1999), The Sight of Death(2006), Picasso and Truth: From Cubism to Guernica (2013), Heaven on Earth: Painting and the Life to Come (2018), and If These Apples Should Fall: Cézanne and the Present (2022). He writes criticism regularly for the London Review of Books, and has been a Visiting Professor in the Department of History of Art at York.
Adam Phillips is a practicing psychoanalyst and essayist, and has been Visiting Professor in the Department of English and Related Literatures at York since 2006. He is the General Editor of the Penguin Freud, and author of more than 16 books of essays and studies, from On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored (1993) to Attention Seeking (2019). His most recent books include On Wanting to Change (2021), On Getting Better (2021), and On Giving Up (2024).
