The Moog Cookbook

In his landmark 1939 essay, "Avant-Garde and Kitsch," art goon Clement Greenberg drew the
line separating all that is cool from all that sucks. He basically dissed what he termed
"middlebrow" (read: Hootie and the Blowfish), championing instead high culture and
espousing smart-sounding stuff like "purity in art consists in the acceptance, willing
acceptance, of the limitations of the medium of the specific art." Greenberg was... More >