Volume 46, Number 17 · November 4, 1999
Goodbye to All That
By Robert L. Herbert
Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism
by T.J. Clark
Yale University Press, 451 pp., $45.00
We would look in vain in the museum world, where most of us are exposed to art history, for the presence of T.J. Clark, one of the most distinctive and influential writers about the art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Although a very independent scholar who has argued with Marxism as often as he has drawn upon it, Clark was tarred with the brush of leftist determinism in the 1970s and 1980s and deliberately excluded from exhibitions and museum symposia devoted to the work of Courbet and Manet, artists for whom he was one of the most exciting new interpreters.
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