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

In a seminal essay—“Avant-Garde and Kitsch,” published in Partisan Review in 1939—critic Clement Greenberg starkly contrasted the avant-garde of his day with the figurative painting that competed with ...

Greenberg’s career was launched with the publication of one of his letters in Partisan Review which he later developed into his famous essay on Avant-Garde and Kitsch.

Five Faces of Modernity is a series of semantic and cultural biographies of words that have taken on special significance in the last century and a half or so: modernity, avant-garde, decadence, ...

Greenberg enumerated his champions of the game against kitsch: Picasso, Braque, Mondrian, Kandinsky, Brancusi, namely Klee, Matisse and Cézanne. The originality of their artistic production, the ...

People’s Revives the Avant-Garde Gallery With an Alluring Cocktail Lounge in Greenwich Village "People's is just a new prism for non-fiction. It's an excuse to immerse ourselves in each other's ...

“The avant-garde abstraction into attractive notions like ‘power’ as such obscures just how ugly and stupid power really looks like in practice.” It’s tempting to dismiss the Trump movement’s ...

In a seminal essay – “Avant-Garde and Kitsch,” published in Partisan Review in 1939 – critic Clement Greenberg starkly contrasted the avant-garde of his day with the figurative painting that competed ...

His work, according to the LA Times, is a “mash-up of avant-garde, kitsch and kink”. So it isn’t very surprising to see why Anderson is so drawn to Hawkins’ work, given that his current tenure at ...

This solo show coincides with The Avant-Garde in Georgia (1900-1936) at the Centre for Fine Arts (Bozar) in Brussels, the movement’s first major survey.