Tag: critical essays

  • Clement Greenberg’s The Avant-garde And Kitsch

    Clement Greenberg’s The Avant-garde And Kitsch

    Art is, or it should be, about more than simply making marks on a surface or manipulating materials into pleasing–or indeed displeasing–shapes…. perhaps the avant-garde or kitsch. A true artist benefits immeasurably by knowing about the history that has created the universe they traverse. Ever wonder what all that academic talk is that curators like…