>Wow, the next section on the NYC crowd and the divisions that Greenberg
>et al sowed between the polticized surrealists was just stunning. Man,
>that had an impact that carried on for twenty years. That kind of
>formalist criticism in art, not only stripped art of its political
>dimension, it basically stripped it of any meaning whatsoever.
It was war. I think you might like this:
http://articlesandtexticles.co.uk/imgs/0608/tansey01x.jpg
It's called Triumph of the New York School. That's Greenberg on the right of the table looming over Breton signing a surrender treaty.
Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Fernand Léger, Marcel Duchamp, Juan Gris, Pierre Bonnard, Henri Rousseau, Guillaume Apollinaire, stand and look on from the European side with the cavalry.
Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman, Ad Reinhardt, Arshile Gorky, David Smith, are behind Greenberg on the side with the tanks and news photographers.
