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 ...

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 ’.

This was achieved by creating an oppositional duality between old-fashioned kitsch, which was sentimental representational art, and the new avant-garde of abstract and modern art. Kitsch was cast as ...

In all fairness, what I garnered from this exhibition may not have been what the curator, Vivian Greene, intended. After two fully engaged and stimulating viewings of Utopia Matters, I was provoked ...

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

In his essay “ Avant-Garde and Kitsch,” art critic Clement Greenberg compares and contrasts the titular phenomena, arguing that although both the avant-garde and kitsch are part of the ...

Greenberg’s next big essay, “Towards a Newer Laocoon,” developed at length one of the subsidiary themes of “Avant-Garde and Kitsch”–a theme whose formulation he specifically credited ...

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 ...