The Notion of 'Postmodern'  

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"What can be safely called Modernism emerged in the middle of the last century [19th century]. And rather locally, in France, with Baudelaire in literature and Manet in painting, and maybe with Flaubert too, in prose fiction."--"The Notion of 'Postmodern'" (1980) by Clement Greenberg


"There the proto-Modernists were, of all people, the pre-Raphaelites (and even before them, as proto-proto-Modernists, the German Nazarenes. The Pre-Raphaelites actually foretold Manet (with whom Modernist painting most definitely begins). They acted on a dissatisfaction with painting as practiced in their time, holding that its realism wasn't truthful enough".--"The Notion of 'Postmodern'" (1980) by Clement Greenberg

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"The Notion of 'Postmodern'" (1980) is an essay by Clement Greenberg published in Arts 54, No. 6 (February 1980).

It has been collected in Zeitgeist in Babel: The Postmodernist Controversy (1991).




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