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
Poor box so that the faithful people may at any time dispose their alms. Many Catholic parish churches in Ireland have two collection boxes, one "for the church" and the other "for the poor". The term "mite," according to the dictionary, is defined as any of the following: An alms box is a strong chest or box often fastened to the wall of a church to receive offerings for the poor. The etymology of the word mite comes through Middle English and Middle Dutch from the Middle Low German "mīte," a small Flemish coin or tiny animal. In biblical times a mite