Critical terms for art history
edited by Robert S. Nelson and Richard Shiff
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1996.
ISBN: 0226571653 DDC: 701.4 LCC: N34 Edition: (paper : acid-free paper)
Modernism: Charles Harrison
p.145 What modernism stands for is the critical achievement of and aesthetic standard within a given medium in the face of (though emphatically not in disregard of) the pervasive condition of modernity. The adjectival form of this "modernism" is not "modern" but "modernist". Thus...kitsch may be modern, but insofar as it is defined as unself-critical and unoriginal, it cannot qualify as modernist.
Quoting Greenburg "Flatness, two-dimensionality, was the only condition painting shared with no other art." p.146
Clement Greenberg
Clement Greenberg: the collected essays and criticism
Clement Greenberg, John O'Brian (Editor)
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1986-
ISBN: 0226306208 DDC: 700 LCC: N7445.2
p. 92 Modernist art continues the past without a gap or break, and wherever it may end up it will never cease being intelligible in terms of the past.
