Tag Archives: Clement Greenberg

“Form Follows Function” – Greenberg, Rand, Wright

Posted on July 4, 2012 by Brian Kubarycz

I’m not the best person with whom to discuss Ayn Rand. I read a little of her in high school, and that’s about all. Students love her though, so at some time I’ll perhaps need to sit down and read … Continue reading →

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From “Pasted-Paper Revolution” to “Collage”

Posted on June 15, 2012 by Brian Kubarycz

The key to understanding Greenberg’s argument about cubism and collage is to center on one or two fundamental concepts – medium specificity and dialectical development. By medium specificity we mean that each artistic medium, the physical material out of which … Continue reading →

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A Materialist Reading of High-Modernist Spirituality

Posted on June 9, 2012 by Brian Kubarycz

A great deal of purism is the translation of an extreme solicitude, an anxiousness as to the fate of art, a concern for its identity. We must respect this. When the purist insists upon excluding “literature” and subject matter from … Continue reading →

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The Fate of The Master – Clement Greenberg Gets Old

Posted on January 30, 2012 by Brian Kubarycz

As for a universal human nature, or illusion of it, and how that might affect a peasant’s response to Art or Kitch; it seems to me Greenberg would admit a peasant, given the proper instruction, could be made to value … Continue reading →

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“Something for everyone!” – Sarah Chang

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Brian Kubarycz

Below is a promo for Sarah Chang’s performance of Antonio Vivaldi’s beloved “The Four Seasons”. Have a look and a listen. I won’t even bother to ask whether this is Art or Kitsch. Of course it’s kitsch, and particularly bad … Continue reading →

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Fine Young Cannibals

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Brian Kubarycz

These composers (Schoenberg, Berg, Webern), all of whom were thought to be highly abstract and intensely intellectual and extremely challenging, would have been instances of pure music of the sort that Greenberg would have valiantly championed. This was stuff which … Continue reading →

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Monuments of The Cubist Struggle

Posted on July 22, 2011 by Brian Kubarycz

–Clement Greenberg, “The Pasted-Paper Revolution” (1947) In 1910 Braque had already inserted a very graphic nail with a sharp cast shadow in a picture otherwise devoid of graphic definitions and cast shadows, Still-life with Violin and Palette, in order to … Continue reading →

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