No joy in Mudville : Greenberg's modernism then and now

Author

Storr, Robert

Document type

Article (livre)

Language

English

Book title

Modern art and popular culture : readings in high & low

Author (monograph)

Varnedoe, Kirk (Editor, Collective Author); Gopnik, Adam (Editor, Collective Author)

Source

Modern art and popular culture : readings in high & low. 1990, 160-190, 19 ill.

Publisher

H.N. Abrams, New York (usa) / Museum of Modern Art, New York (usa)

Publication country

United States

Abstract (en)

Addresses Clement Greenberg's criticism and premises, especially his influential 1939 essay, "Avant-garde and kitsch," from which many assumptions about the nature of popular culture and modern art continue to flow. Reconstructs the background of that essay and other of his writings in relation to their socio-political context, discusses the polemical force of Greenberg's writings, and demonstrates Greenberg's flawed reading of the history of modern art and the art of his own time.

Subject (en)

• General works -- Historians and critics
• Greenberg, Clement, b.1909
• Art critics
• United States
• Avant-garde
• Art
• Kitsch
• Modernism
• Writings
• Politics
• Society
• Popular culture
• Art criticism

Subject (fr)

• Généralités -- Historiens et critiques d'art
• Critiques d'art
• Etats-Unis
• Avant-garde
• Art
• Kitsch
• Modernisme
• Ecrits
• Politique
• Société
• Culture populaire
• Critique d'art

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19920701-00428241

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