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
West German Art Pottery 1970s, a wide variety of art pottery was produced well in the 1980s. "West German Art Pottery" is well known for its great variety of forms and expressive colors. The pottery began getting attention in the mid 1990s, and interest has been growing every since. Horst Makus published several books in the late 90s and after, but those are in German and limited to the period up to about 1962. Mark Hill published "Fat Lava", which is an expanded catalog from the exhibition done by Hill and Graham Cooley. Kevin Graham has produced a variety of cds, and Graham and