CULTURE IN LOS ANGELES 1940-1950 The City of Angels has many names, or to be more correct, many variations of its Spanish name: El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula. The locals have their own names for the city: “L.A.” and the “City of...
THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF The Avant-Garde and Kitsch, 1939 by Clement Greenberg What is life? If one paraphrases the painter, Ad Reinhardt, “Life is everything that is not art or art is everything that is not life…” which means that much has been excluded from...