Art history and Kitsch". In the essay Greenberg claimed that the avant-garde arose in order to defend aesthetic standards from the decline of 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
Low Mass a choir, but one or two altar servers follow their duties as acolytes, and answer the responses in latin. All prayers are recited and no singing is expected. The incensement rite is not included. The faithful are expected to kneel for most of the Mass, except for the proclamation of the Gospel. Originally, Low Mass was sung in monotone. Thus we read of priests in the Middle Ages going to "sing" their ""Missa privat"a" or "Low Mass". This custom of singing died out in the 18th century. Much of Low Mass is said in a voice audible only to the