Kitsch
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The Emergence of Modernist Paintings
In 19 39, the american art critic clement greenberg wrote a really influential piece about kitch. And he argues that kitch is basically the altar ego of avongard art. Modernist painting from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century tried to break away from representationalist painting by moving in the direction of abstraction. The second event important for making sense of avangard modernism is marks.
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