Farewell to an idea: episodes from a history of modernism

Abstract

In this intense and far-reaching book, acclaimed art historian T. J. Clark offers a new vision of art of past two centuries, focusing on moments when art responded directly in extreme terms to ongoing disaster called modernity. Modernism, Clark argues, was an extreme answer to an extreme condition - one Max Weber summed up as the disenchantment of world. Clark focuses on instances of maximum stress, when movement revealed its true nature. -- Publisher's website.

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