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
West Low German dialects, form a dialect continuum with the Westphalian language. They consist of: West Low German West Low German, also known as Low Saxon (German: ', literally "West Low German", or ' (in a stricter sense), literally: "Low Saxon, Nether-Saxon"; ; ) is a group of Low German (also Low Saxon; German: ', ', Dutch: "") dialects spoken in parts of the Netherlands, northwestern Germany and southern Denmark (in North Schleswig by the German minority). It is one of two groups of mutually intelligible dialects, the other being East Low German dialects. The language code (ISO 639-2) is NDS which abbreviates