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
Low German spoken. Etymologically however, "Platt" meant "clear" in the sense of a language the simple people could understand. In Dutch and German, the word can also mean "improper", "rude" or "too simple" which is why the term is not popular in the Netherlands. The colloquial term denotes both Low German dialects and any non-standard Western variety of German; this use is chiefly found in northern and Western Germany and is not considered to be linguistically correct. The ISO 639-2 language code for Low German (Low Saxon) has been nds ( or ) since May 2000. Low German is a part of