Professor of Modern Art until his retirement. In 1991 Clark was awarded the College Art Association's Distinguished Teaching of Art History Award. Notable students include Thomas E. Crow, Michael Kimmelman, John O'Brian and Jonathan Weinberg. As a member of Retort, a Bay Area-based collective of radical intellectuals, he co-authored the book Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War, published by Verso Books in 2005. In 2005 Clark received a Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award. In 2006 he received an honorary degree from the Courtauld Institute of Art. In 2007, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society. He and his wife Anne Wagner, who also taught art history at Berkeley, retired in 2010 and moved to London. He continues to be active as a guest lecturer, author, and now as a poet. His book Picasso and Truth: From Cubism to Guernica is based on his Mellon Lectures in Fine Art delivered in spring 2009. His most recent book is If These Apples Should Fall: Cézanne and the Present (2022). Publications Image of the People: Gustave Courbet and the 1848 Revolution. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973. , trad Fr. :Image du peuple: Gustave Courbet et la révolution de 1848, Les Presses du Réel, 2007. The Absolute Bourgeois: Artists and Politics in France, 1848–1851. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973. . trad Fr. :Le Bourgeois Absolu – Les Artistes Et La Politique En France De 1848 À 1851, Art édition, 1992. , (projet) Presses du réel, . The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and his Followers. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1985. Also published at pp. 467–488 of book Tom McDonough (2004) (Editor) Guy Debord and the Situationist International: Texts and Documents. The MIT Press (1 April 2004) 514 pages , trad. Fr. :Pourquoi l'art ne peut pas tuer l'internationale situationniste, Egrégores, 2006, Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999. Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War. With Iain Boal, Joseph Matthews and Michael Watts. London: Verso, 2005. The Sight of Death: An Experiment in Art Writing. Yale University Press, 2006. The Painting of Postmodern Life?. Barcelona: MACBA, 2009. Picasso and Truth: From Cubism to Guernica. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2013. Heaven on Earth: Painting and the Life to Come. London: Thames & Hudson, 2018. If These