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Modern Art
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Modern Art
An overview of modernist theory, major artists (Pollock, de Kooning, Warhol), styles and works.
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"Formalist critic Clement Greenberg was arguably the most influential critic of the post-1945 period. It as Greenberg who popularized the term "modernism" and who applied the term to a wide variety of artistic practices and types of representation. Greenberg set out a definition of "advanced" art as art that progressed from greater to lesser complexity. He wrote,The essence of Modernism lies . . . in the use of the characteristic methods of a discipline to criticize the discipline itself. . . . What had to be exhibited and made explicit was that which was unique and irreducible not only in art in general but also in each particular art. Each art had to determine, through the operations peculiar to itself, the effects peculiar and exclusive to itself (Stiles and Selz 2)."
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