El análisis más agudo del arte moderno

T.J. Clark: Farewell to an Idea. Episodes from a History of Modernism, Yale University Press, New Haven y Londres, 1999

"Birds of Paradise. This is the bad dream of modernism, as I say: that however urgent the impulse had been to recast aesthetic practice and move out into uncolonized areas of experience, all that resulted from a century´s activity was a thickening -a stiffening- of the same old aesthetic mix." (p. 308)

"The present is purgatory, not a permanent travesty of heaven" (p. 408 y última)