Avant-Garde and Kitsch An Essay by Clement Greenberg theoria.art-zoo.com Capitalism in decline finds that whatever of quality it is still capable of producing becomes almost invariably a threat to its own existence. qualityeconomicscultureart
I mix it with two in my thought It is the artist who, more than other men, is able to create something out of nothing. A whole artistic work is immeasurably more than the sum of its parts. “I mix it with two in my thought”; this is the statement of the fact of universal experience that the work of art has real existence apart from its translation into material form. Dorothy Sayers, The Mind of the Maker The design concept art