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"Modernist Painting" (1960) is an essay by art critic Clement Greenberg. The essay was broadcast and first published by Voice of America and subsequently published in the Arts Yearbook 4 in 1961.

It is often cited for Greenberg's definition of modernism as:

"the use of characteristic methods of a discipline to criticize the discipline itself, not in order to subvert it but in order to entrench it more firmly in its area of competence."

In this essay, Greenberg declares Kant "the first real Modernist."

Incipit:

"Modernism includes more than just art and literature. By now it includes almost the whole of what is truly alive in our culture."





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