Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism (Hardcover) by Professor T J Clark, Timothy Clark

9780300075328. New condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 464. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 464 p. Contains: Illustrations. 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.