Sunday, 6 December 2009

Task,Session 5


Notes on Avant-Grand and Kitsch

Its the title of essay by Clement Greensburg. It was the first published in the Partisan Review( was an American political and literary quarterly published from 1934 to 2003) .he assert that avant-grade and modernist art, That mean to resist the 'dumbing down' of cultural caused by consumerism. And also the Kitsch
was a word that his essay has been popularized.

One of his claims was that Kitsch was Equivalent to a academic art:"Art Kitsch is a academic, and conversely, all that is academic is kitsch".
In 19 century , It was a centered in rules and formulations. that were tried to make art into something learnable and easily expressible. That is a good thing in my idea.

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