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Art Criticism 1960b

Art Criticism 1960b. Clement Greenberg publishes “Modernist Painting”: his criticism reorients itself and in its new guise shapes the debates of the sixties. The Works of Clement Greenberg. “ Avant-Garde and Kitsch” (1939) “Towards a Newer Laocoon” (1940)

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Art Criticism 1960b

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  1. Art Criticism1960b Clement Greenberg publishes “Modernist Painting”: his criticism reorients itself and in its new guise shapes the debates of the sixties.

  2. The Works of Clement Greenberg • “Avant-Garde and Kitsch” (1939) • “Towards a Newer Laocoon” (1940) • “The Crisis of the Easel Picture” (1948) • “Modernist Painting” (1960) • “How Art Writing Earns its Bad Name” (1962) • “After Abstract Expressionism” (1962)

  3. Contrasting Terms from Clement Greenberg • “allover” • Used to describe the uniformity of surface in certain Abstract Expressionist work (mainly Pollock) • Organizes its contents in terms of flatness, frontality, and lack of incident • “easel picture” • Illusion of a boxlike cavity is cut into the wall behind it to create the stage for some kind of dramatic, and thus focused event

  4. Contrasting Terms from Clement Greenberg • “homeless representation” • Abstract painting seemed to describe devices used in traditional painting to created the illusion of 3D space • Waiting for a representational object to • “color-space” (also “optical”) • Luminous openness • Idea influenced by art history writing • “haptic” (tactile) qualities opposed to “optic” ones

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