Notes
1
Clement Greenberg, “Avant-Garde and Kitsch,” in Art and Culture (Beacon Press, 1965), 9.
2
Greenberg, “Avant-Garde and Kitsch,” 8.
3
Cited in Max Bill, introduction to Wassily Kandinsky, Über das Geistige in der Kunst (Benteli Verlag, 1952), 10–11.
4
Georg Lukács, Essays on Realism (MIT Press, 1980), 112–13.
5
Andre Breton, “On the Time When the Surrealists Were Right,” in Manifestoes of Surrealism (Ann Arbor Paperbacks, 1977), 243ff.
6
See →.
7
Mikhail Lifshitz, The Crisis of Ugliness (Brill, 2018).
This text was originally given as a lecture in the Distinguished Lecture series at the Jordan Center at NYU on October, 10, 2019.
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