Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism
This work presents T.J. Clark's perspective on the history of modern art. It asks whether modernism and socialism depended on each other for their vitality, and argues that modernism was an extreme answer to an extreme condition - summed up by Max Weber as the disenchantment of the world.
Author: T. J. Clark
Format: Hardback, 452 pages, 195mm x 275mm, 1950 g
Published: 1999, Yale University Press, United States
Genre: Fine Arts / Art History
This work presents T.J. Clark's perspective on the history of modern art. It asks whether modernism and socialism depended on each other for their vitality, and argues that modernism was an extreme answer to an extreme condition - summed up by Max Weber as the disenchantment of the world.