Those Passions is the careful distillation of a lifetime of writing about art's relationship to politics, by the internationally renowned art historian T. J. Clark.

Those Passions unpicks the nature of capitalist societies since the fifteenth century and the art produced within them. It evaluates the central politics of appearance—the building of "consumerism," the arrival of the 24-hour image-led world, the continuously changing methods of symbolic production, and the ongoing saturation of life by pictures and "data." It reveals our guilty love affair with the imagery of violence, the true nature of the "advertising" dream world, and the power and pathos of screen time. Hardcover, 400 pages.