1. A few thoughts on abstract expressionism, Clement Greenberg & narrative in painting.
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4. The less narrative a painting has on the canvas, the more contextual narrative it requires from criticism.
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5. Clement Greenberg's criticism, the potent myths he created, are the narrative component of abstract expressionist painting.
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@HeerJeet Have you read Tom Wolfe's short rant on this, _The Painted Word_? YME despite faux his anti-intellectual posing. Short & blunt. -
@HeerJeet & clear and funny. I still remember his phase about reading the Sunday Times in the tub & picking out 1 clam-broth colored stream. - Show replies
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@HeerJeet@zunguzungu It also displaced narrative to the commercial, the marginal, and the merely popular. -
@tnielsenhayden@zunguzungu Another move is to re-appropriate popular narrative in form of pastische or irony (Robert Coover or even Chabon) - Show replies
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@HeerJeet Was that intentional on the part of the artists or are you describing an effect? -
@jurieongames I think it's usually intentional. They want protective cover of camp so they aren't seen as genre hacks. - Show replies
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