An edition of Farewell to an idea (1999)
Farewell to an idea
episodes from a history of modernism
By T. J. Clark
Publish Date
1999
Publisher
Yale University Press
Language
eng
Pages
451
Description:
T. J. Clark rewrites the history of modern art. With the fall of the Berlin Wall, he explains, "there is general agreement at present that the project called socialism has come to an end, roughly at the same moment as modernism." Have modernism and socialism died together? And did the two of them depend on each other for life - for their sense of the future, their wish to live in a fully material world? Not flinching from modernism's dangers and blind spots, but passionately attached to the movement's wildness, Clark poses these fundamental questions to the culture and politics of the past two centuries.