“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.”
T.J. Clark
The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers
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