Modern and Postmodern
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"Modern and Postmodern" (1979) is an essay by Clement Greenberg.
It is known for its definition of modernism:
- "What can be safely called Modernism emerged in the middle of the last century—and rather locally, in France, with Baudelaire in literature and Manet in painting, and perhaps with Flaubert, too, in prose fiction. (It was a while later, and not so locally, that Modernism appeared in music and architecture)."
It is Greenberg's last essay on modernism, and its definition of modernism contrasts with Greenberg's often cited 1960 version from "Modernist Painting":
- "the use of characteristic methods of a discipline to criticize the discipline itself, not in order to subvert it but in order to entrench it more firmly in its area of competence."
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References
- William Dobell Memorial Lecture, Sydney, Australia, Oct 31, 1979, Arts 54, No.6 (February 1980).
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