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Clement Greenberg (1909-1994), Avant-Garde, Kitsch, Marxism, Social Realism, Leon Trotsky (1879-1940), Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)Copyright (c) 2015 Anuario del Departamento de Historia y Teoría del Arte
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Abstract
Clement Greenberg (1909-1994) was one of the most important critics in the 20th Century. He is the author of one of the most influential theories of modernity in thevisual arts. His texts played a relevant role in the migration of the Avant-Garde from Paris to New York. He wasthe first interpreter and apologist of a key artist in histime; Jackson Pollock. Before, in the 1930s, he was partof a group of jewish intellectuals in New York City whichgathered around the pages of the leftist magazine Partisan Review, proposing an intense discussion regardingthe relations between art and politics, in the period in between the 1929 crack, and the begining of the SecondWorld War. His famous essay “Avant-Garde and Kitsch”(1939), which is contextualized and analyzed into detail in the following paper, was one of the most important and worthy contributions to this debate.