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Description: Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism
For a long time, writing this book, I had a way of beginning it in mind. I wanted to imagine modernism unearthed by some future archaeologist, in the form of a handful of disconnected pieces left over from a holocaust that had utterly wiped out the pieces’ context – their history, the family of languages they belonged to, all traces of a built environment. I wanted Adolph Menzel’s Moltke’s Binoculars (fig. 2) to have survived; and John Heartfield’s A New Man – Master of a New World
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.1-13
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00048.003

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