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Avant-Garde and Kitsch

Avant-Garde and Kitsch

Essay by Clement Greenberg
"Avant-Garde and Kitsch" is the title of a 1939 essay by Clement Greenberg, first published in the Partisan Review, in which he claimed that avant-garde and modernist art was a means to resist the "dumbing down" of culture caused by consumerism. Wikipedia
Originally published: 1939