Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism

by T. J. Clark

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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.
  • ISBN10 0300075324
  • ISBN13 9780300075328
  • Publish Date 11 March 1999
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 1 February 2013
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Yale University Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 452
  • Language English