Avant-Garde and Kitsch

Greenberg, C. (1939). Avant-Garde and Kitsch. Partisan Review, 6(5), 34-49.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1939

Volume

6

Issue

5

Pages

34-49

Link

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Avant-Garde-and-Kitsch

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art_aesthetics

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Primes

• Abstraction in Art
  • … is culturally innocent—all art, abstract or not, is viewed through cultural lenses, as Hegel's (1835) Lectures on Aesthetics and Greenberg's (1939) "Avant-Garde and Kitsch" both attest in different ways—but abstraction's primary meaning-making mechanism is formal and perceptual rather than symbolic and conventional.

    This sourceDefines the avant-garde's social/historical context and its retreat toward medium and abstraction against sentimental kitsch; cited for the cultural-historical reading of pictorial form (inline, Not to Be Confused With).

• Minimalism
  • Adolf Loos's Ornament and Crime (1908) and Greenberg's modernist defense of medium-specific reduction

    This sourceFoundational modernist essay arguing that avant-garde art achieves significance by reducing itself to medium-specific essentials — proto-minimalist account of reduction in modernist criticism.

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