Author : Dennis Raverty
Release : 2005
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 210/5 ( reviews)
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Book Synopsis Struggle Over the Modern by : Dennis Raverty
Download or read book Struggle Over the Modern written by Dennis Raverty. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The most familiar strain of this debate to us today is formalism, which emphasized "purity" in art and culminated in the writing of the influential late modern critic, Clement Greenberg. The other critical position, he contends, is not as familiar to us today, partly because it was so overshadowed by formalist thought in the postwar period. This position emphasized the importance of "experience" over formal purity and is evident in the writing of Greenberg's rival, Harold Rosenberg, as well as in a number of American writers and critics from the first half of the century. Struggle Over the Modern reconstitutes this neglected yet important dimension of the avant-garde debate in American art criticism decade by decade."--Jacket.