Indeed, Clark's methodology represents a sophisticated overhaul of Erwin Panofsky's method of the re-creative experience
A Farewell to modernism? Re-reading T.J. Clark Raymond Spiteri
Modernism had two great wishes. It wanted its audience to be led towards 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. *
