Clement Greenberg. However, just as the newness of Cubism was accepted and then canonized by Barr and the Museum of Modern Art, so the revolutionary abstraction of Abstract Expressionism was quickly codified and accepted—and elevated above Picasso and the School of Paris—through the efforts of the American critic Clement Greenberg. (Just as the baton of avant-garde art passed from Europe.
One may agree or disagree with Clement Greenberg's ideas, such as the importance of the medium (paint, canvas) over the content (subject matter), the fact that avant-garde art is by essence elitist and preoccupies itself with itself (art for art's sake), as a reaction against the ever invading and nefarious presence of kitsch (art for the masses), or the idea that what matters is the end.
Modern Art as Self-Critical-summarizing Clement Greenberg’s argument. Modern Art as Self-Critical and the Shock of the New Modern art contains so many different and contradictory tendencies that it is often difficult to see what it all has in common. But one of the things that seems to tie it all together is a reflection on the very.
Tom Crow took the courageous step of citing—favorably—several critical essays written by Clement Greenberg. Crow wanted to remind us that, in its earliest theoretical formulations, including those advanced by Greenberg himself, modernist art was seen as thoroughly bound up with the rise of capitalism and the.