Clement Greenberg’s “Modern and Postmodern”: the Apology of Modernism in the Postmodern Era

Authors

  • Kirill A. Chunikhin European University at St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Russia; Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany Author

Keywords:

Clement Greenberg, modernism, history of American art-criticism

Abstract

The article explores Clement Greenberg’s unrenowned essay “Modern and Postmodern” (1980) in which the famous art-critic attacks his own definition of “modernism as self-criticism” stated in his 1961 article “Modernist Painting”.

Author Biography

  • Kirill A. Chunikhin, European University at St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Russia; Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany
    Chunikhin, Kirill A. European University at St. Petersburg, Russia, Ph.D. student/ Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany, Ph.D. student

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Published

2013-10-11

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Western Art of the 15th-20th Centuries

How to Cite

Chunikhin, K. A. (2013). Clement Greenberg’s “Modern and Postmodern”: the Apology of Modernism in the Postmodern Era. Actual Problems of Theory and History of Art, 3, 515–520. https://publ.actual-art.org/aptha/article/view/10120