Clark's subject is painting and printmaking in the years following the 1848 Revolution in France, "a time," he argues, "when art and politics could not escape each other." The book tells the story of a handful of artists trying to take advantage of that unfamiliar-and short-lived-situation. It is suffused with wit and pathetic irony." T.
"This book," said the Times, "is a product of that school of art history whose history is as well read as its art, and whilst it covers only a small area of time and place, Clark's approach and style are such that it throws up enough ideas and pleasures to illuminate far beyond its rather special circumstances.
When this book and its companion volume, Image of the People, appeared in 1973, they were taken as a challenge to the way art was usually written about.
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