A Response To: Modernist Painting by Clement Greenberg & Post-Painterly Abstraction by Clement Greenberg In this paper I will be summarizing two essays by Clement Greenberg‚ one entitled “Modernist Painting” and the other “Post-Painterly Abstraction.” After summarizing the articles I will discuss and respond to them. In the first reading “Modernist Painting” Greenberg describes Modernism as being a method in which a discipline is used to criticize the discipline itself‚ for instance
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University of Canterbury by the now defunct Library Art Acquisitions Committee in 1995. Lithography by its very method of production with the flat stone printing surface and a flat‚ pigment receiving‚ support material it would seem to conform to Clement Greenberg’s assertion of the importance material specificity for a “purity” in modern art. But as a lithograph is reproducible it problematizes its value as a commodity. Does it have that which Walter Benjamin in his 1936 essay ‚ calls the “aura”
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idolized de Kooning and was deeply influenced by de Kooning over their relationship. (Stevens 484) One of O’Hara’s great poems about de Kooning’s work was "Ode to Willem de Kooning" (Appendix A). At the time of writing the poem‚ the powerful critic Clement Greenberg would have suggested that only a trained‚ restrained art criticism with a limited vocabulary could have captured the essence of a piece of art‚ while Lytle Shaw believed that ekphrastic poetry is the best way to fully capture visual art
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people would argue that it is rather a lack of style and this is the essence behind the concept of kitsch. kitsch is cheap‚ useless and tasteless art that is more likely to be hoarded rather than collected. It is stored away‚ hidden never to be used. Clement Greenberg concluded the idea of kitsch “Where there is an avant-garde‚ generally we also find a rear-guard. True enough -- simultaneously with the entrance of the avant-garde‚ a second new cultural phenomenon appeared in the industrial West: that
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Contemporary Art Essay Code: 81.232 Word count: 1‚836 Topic: 4 Painting was proclaimed dead in the 1980s. Discuss referencing Greenberg‚ the Conceptual Art movement and the revival of painting in the 1980s. I have written this work myself and have made every attempt to acknowledge the ideas of others. Painting has been declared dead numerous times since the 1960s but it refuses to die‚ even though the relevance and legitimacy of the medium is repeatedly questioned. Because
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The Runaway Bunny‚ written by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Clement Hurd‚ is a sweet story that tells the tale of a little bunny’s imaginative plan to run away. But no matter how or where he wants to go to get away from her‚ the mother will always find a way to be with him and be there to keep an eye on him. The storyline is simple yet spellbinding. Each time the little bunny wants to become something different in order to run away‚ his mother matches his imagination by becoming whatever
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Neeraj Periwal Mrs. Grube AM June 7‚ 2004 Frindle Have you ever thought of inventing your own word and have it emerge as an absolute sensation? In Frindle‚ a magnificent book by renowned author Andrew Clements‚ a young boy named Nicholas Allen is faced with a language-arts teacher who practically worships the dictionary. But it doesn’t stop there. From making students learn a new word out of the dictionary every day to making you do an oral report on the origin of
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Jackson Pollock’s ultimate fan boy came in the form of Clement Greenberg‚ art critic extraordinaire of the 20th century. He loved the formal language of abstraction and found manifestations of his definition of art in Pollock’s work. His contemporary‚ Harold Rosenberg‚ however‚ would probably have been standing in the corner shaking his head at Greenberg’s enthusiasm‚ trying to rival it with his own definitions and excitement. To Rosenberg‚ painting evolved into action and feeling with a near disregard
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The letter written by Pope Saint Clement to the Corinthians exemplifies the authority of the bishop of Rome over the entire Church. Saint Clement refers to a number of important issues in his appeal to the Corinthians but perhaps most notably is his insistence upon unity within the Church. He opens the letter by a plea against the “unholy breach of unity among you‚ which is quite incompatible with God’s chosen people‚” and he then proceeds to explain the dangerous effects of such disunity‚ and finally
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Things not Seen by Andrew Clements is an extraordinary book showing the struggle of independence between a boy and his family. The genre is the popular scientific fiction and was published in 2002. It was inspired off of a bible verse‚ Hebrews 11:1‚"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for‚ the evidence of things not seen." Things not Seen is one of Andrew Clements most prized book‚ but he is most famous for his book‚ Frindle which won a Christopher Award. Plot/Character Summary: The setting
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