“If I can't have the proletariat as my chosen people any longer, at least capitalism remains my Satan.” PeopleIfsI CanCapitalismRemainsChosenSatanProletariat Author:T. J. Clark
“The value of a work of art cannot ultimately turn on the more or less of its subservience to ideology; for painting can be grandly subservient to the half-truths of the moment, doggedly servile, and yet be no less intense.” ArtMomentsValuesTurnsHalfPaintingIntenseIdeologyWorks Of ArtTurn-onSubservientHalf TruthSubservience Book:The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers Source: The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers
“Modernism had two great wishes. It wanted its audience to be led toward a recognition of the social reality of the sign (away from the comforts of narrative and illusionism, was the claim); but equally it dreamed of turning the sign back to a bedrock of World/Nature/Sensation/Subjectivity which the to and fro of capitalism had all but destroyed.” WorldTwoRealityWantedWishSocialAudienceComfortCapitalismClaimsDestroyedRecognitionNarrativeSensationsModernismSubjectivityBedrock Author:T. J. Clark
