Nature of Abstract Art

essay by Schapiro

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In art criticism: Clement Greenberg
In his famous essay “Nature of Abstract Art” (1937), Meyer Schapiro critiques Barr, arguing that such a clearly defined “flowchart” view of formal development—seeing art as moving in one clear direction—assumes that artistic development has nothing to do with extra-artistic reality or, for that matter, as Schapiro emphasizes, the…
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