“People like Lichtenstein and Warhol, they paint nice pictures. All the same, it’s easy stuff. It is – it’s minor. The best of the pop artists don’t succeed at being more than minor.” —Clement Greenberg
With all the hagiography and stratospheric prices surrounding Warhol and his pop art peers, it’s easy to lose sight of the fact that they were not universally accepted at first, even within the avant-garde academic community. In this video, Clement Greenberg does not mince words.
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