In 1939, young American art and literary critic Clement Greenberg published a seminal essay about the state of culture, memorably titled "Avant- Garde and Kitsch." Greenberg wrote with a sense of ...

Soon, Varian Fry would help him escape to the United States. In 1939 the communist Partisan Review critic Clement Greenberg would develop Feuchtwanger’s ideas in his famous essay, “Avant-garde and ...

In a famous essay that appeared in Partisan Review in 1939, the Marxist critic Clement Greenberg challenged the artistic milieu of his day with the stark choice between ‘Avant-garde and kitsch ...

That’s all done for us, a kind of emotional outsourcing we might call “moral kitsch.” For Clement Greenberg, kitsch is ...

I find it encouraging to know that there are still exhibitions being mounted capable of altering one’s aesthetic or historical point of view. Such an experience happened this past summer at the Peggy ...

In his landmark essay ‘Avant-Garde and Kitsch’, Clement Greenberg discusses the evolution of art in terms of its separation into two broad cultures; the highbrow and the popular. The ...

Whether or not they know it, the Baltimore Police Department has been teetering toward a net art aesthetic on social media lately. To say that we’re “into it” might be too strong, but our ...

When Clement Greenberg was born, in 1909, modernism had taken hold in virtually all of Western culture. When he died, in 1994, it was possible to argue that modernism had run its course. Few critic… ...