The main trouble with avant-garde art and literature, from the point of view of fascists and Stalinists, is not that they are too critical, but that they are too "innocent," that it is too difficult to inject effective propaganda, that kitsch is more pliable to this end.


"Avant-Garde and Kitsch" (1939), p. 19 - Art and Culture: Critical Essays, (1961)

Clement Greenberg Quotes

The main trouble with avant-garde art and literature, from the point of view of fascists and Stalinists, is not that they are too critical, but that...

The main trouble with avant-garde art and literature, from the point of view of fascists and Stalinists, is not that they are too critical, but that...

The main trouble with avant-garde art and literature, from the point of view of fascists and Stalinists, is not that they are too critical, but that...

The main trouble with avant-garde art and literature, from the point of view of fascists and Stalinists, is not that they are too critical, but that...