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work_ryyy7gdnkrfd5ctlj2ocqc24ym	Raymond Spiteri	A Farewell to modernism? Re-reading T.J. Clark	2010	13	.pdf	application/pdf	6137	327	54	determinants of artistic endeavour.2 Yet Farewell transforms the social history of art's 1 T.J. Clark, Farewell to an Idea: Episodes From the History of Modernism, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. 6 Indeed, Krauss attempts to discover an alternative structural logic at work within the history of twentiethcentury art—the optical unconscious, the informe—which ultimately legitimizes the practice of art history. chapters on the work of Pissarro, Cézanne, Picasso and Pollock, which discuss modernism his analysis in The Painting of Modern Life; by the time he discusses the work of Picasso and 12 Clark has always been an attentive reader of Walter Benjamin, and the social history of art implicitly or meaning; yet it is precisely the ideology of the aesthetic that the social history of art initially In the remainder of this paper I want to focus on Clark's analysis of specific works. In place of a general history of modernism, Clark advances a thick description of key 	./cache/work_ryyy7gdnkrfd5ctlj2ocqc24ym.pdf	./txt/work_ryyy7gdnkrfd5ctlj2ocqc24ym.txt