Modernist Painting¶
Greenberg, C. (1960). Modernist Painting. Forum Lectures.
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- Abstraction in Art
- The generation of aesthetic and emotional meaning through structure, balance, and compositional relationships alone (Greenberg, 1960)
This sourceIn Forum Lectures. Voice of America. (Repr. Art and Literature, 4, 193–201, 1965.) Argues medium specificity and the self-critical reduction of painting to its formal conditions; supports the meaning-through-structure signature (D37-006) and the medium-specificity pole of the medium-vs-universal tension (D37-011).
- The generation of aesthetic and emotional meaning through structure, balance, and compositional relationships alone (Greenberg, 1960)
- Form and Content
- The medium's affordances (oil, marble, pixels) constrain which forms are available for a given content.
This sourceIn Forum Lectures. Voice of America. (Reprinted in Art and Literature, 4, 193–201, 1965.) Argues for medium specificity and the self-critical reduction of painting to its formal conditions. SUPPORTS the aesthetics case in which abstraction suppresses representational content and the medium's affordances constrain available forms (472).
- The medium's affordances (oil, marble, pixels) constrain which forms are available for a given content.
- Minimalism in Art
- The elimination of representational, narrative, decorative, and illusionistic content, consistent with Greenberg's (1960) account of modernist self-criticism
This sourceIn Forum Lectures. Voice of America. (Reprinted in Art and Literature, 4, 193–201, 1965). Argues for medium specificity and the self-critical reduction of painting to its formal conditions; supports the aesthetics case in which abstraction suppresses representational content and the medium's affordances constrain available forms.
- The elimination of representational, narrative, decorative, and illusionistic content, consistent with Greenberg's (1960) account of modernist self-criticism
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