History of art criticism taste involved in consumer society, and seeing kitsch and art as opposites. Greenberg further claimed that avant-garde and Modernist art was a means to resist the leveling of culture produced by capitalist propaganda. Greenberg appropriated the German word 'kitsch' to describe this consumerism, although its connotations have since changed to a more affirmative notion of leftover materials of capitalist culture. Greenberg later became well known for examining the formal properties of modern art. Meyer Schapiro is one of the best-remembered Marxist art historians of the mid-20th century. Although he wrote about numerous time periods and themes in art, he is
Low German house Plain, all the way from the Lower Rhine to Mecklenburg. Even today, the "Fachhallenhaus" still characterises the appearance of many north German villages. The German name, "Fachhallenhaus", is a regional variation of the term "Hallenhaus" ("hall house", sometimes qualified as the "Low Saxon hall house"). In the academic definition of this type of house the word "Fach" does not refer to the "Fachwerk" or "timber-framing" of the walls, but to the large "Gefach" or "bay" between two pairs of the wooden posts ("Ständer") supporting the ceiling of the hall and the roof which are spaced about apart. This was also