clement greenburg:
-medium specificity- hone in to what is central to artists' mediums
^moral ideal: makes art autonomous, free
-disciplines free to explore their own concerns
painting separate from sculpture, dance, etc.
-increasing sense of artist as bohemian
-sees manet being transparent about medium- showing flatness, pigment, rectangular support
-result of centuries of artistic development
nothing arbitrary about it
not about discontinuity- about continuous transformation over time
t.j. clark:
-dada, surrealism, etc. could be seen as violent against modernism
-tendencies towards negative
-destruction of the past/tradition/previous aesthetic order
-read modernism as response to social/political/economical systems, in particular, capitalism
parallels capitalism- farming life is replaced, increased sense of uprootedness
modernism is story of art in the age of capitalism
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