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
The Lifted Brow Tom Bissell, Eileen Myles, Tao Lin, Margo Lanagan, Jim Shepard, Tracy K. Smith, Daniel Handler, Frank Moorhouse, Diane Williams, Sam Lipsyte, Sheila Heti, Blake Butler, Benjamin Kunkel, many more established practitioners, as well as hundreds of other writers and artists. The Lifted Brow The Lifted Brow is an Australian quarterly print literary magazine/journal which is read all around the world. It is published by not-for-profit literary organisation TLB, which also runs the book publishing imprint Brow Books. "The Lifted Brow" was established in 2007 by Ronnie Scott and edited by him until 2012. In 2012 Sam Cooney took over the