 | Stephen W. Melville - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 221 pages
...or other than mere decoration. Thus Greenberg writes: "The essence of modernism lies, as I see it, in the use of the characteristic methods of a discipline...criticize the discipline itself—not in order to subvert, but to entrench it more firmly in its area of competence." There are, of course, two stances one may... | |
 | Jim Sleeper - Social Science - 246 pages
...mass culture chose to resume what Clement Greenberg identified as the modernist artist's proper task, "the use of the characteristic methods of a discipline to criticize the discipline itself— not in order to subvert it, but to entrench it more firmly in its area of competence." Much... | |
 | David Bordwell - Performing Arts - 1991 - 356 pages
...Again Greenberg articulated the issue most forcefully: since Kant, the essence of modernism has been "the use of the characteristic methods of a discipline to criticize the discipline itself."53 Here is reflexivity in another sense. Now a painting is not only "about" paint, color, line,... | |
 | James Matheson Thompson - Art - 1990 - 572 pages
...criticism, I conceive of Kant as the first real Modernist. The essence of Modernism lies, as I see it, in the use of the characteristic methods of a discipline to criticize the discipline itself — not in order to subvert it, but to entrench it more firmly in its area of competence. Kant... | |
 | Benjamin R. Tilghman - Philosophy - 1991 - 212 pages
...movement in general as a critique after the Kantian fashion. The essence of modernism, he believes, lies 'in the use of the characteristic methods of a discipline to criticize the discipline itself - not in order to subvert it, but to entrench it more firmly in the areas of its competence'.... | |
 | Joseph Epstein - Biography & Autobiography - 1989 - 436 pages
...story happens to be a little classic of modernism, in the sense in which Clement Greenberg maintained that "the essence of modernism lies in the use of the characteristic method of a discipline to criticize itself. ..." Yet was Borges a modernist writer? He himself disdained... | |
 | Astradur Eysteinsson, Ástráður Eysteinsson - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 278 pages
...often seek to skirt the problem of cultural dislodgment: "The essence of Modernism lies, as I see it, in the use of the characteristic methods of a discipline to criticize the discipline itself — not in order to subvert it, but to entrench it more firmly in its area of competence."17... | |
 | Mark C. Taylor - Philosophy - 1993 - 302 pages
...argues that Kant was "the first real modernist. The essence of modernism," according to Greenberg, "lies in the use of the characteristic methods of a discipline to criticize the discipline 100 itself — not in order to subvert it, but to entrench it more firmly in its area of competence.... | |
 | Walter B. Kalaidjian - Art - 1993 - 378 pages
...guise of disciplinary purity: that as Greenberg claimed "the essence of Modernism lies, as I see it, in the use of the characteristic methods of a discipline to criticize the discipline itself — not in order to subvert it, but to entrench it more firmly in its area of competence."2... | |
 | David Luban - Law - 1997 - 424 pages
...almost the exacerbation, of [the] self-critical tendency that began with the philosopher Kant. . . . The essence of Modernism lies ... in the use of the...methods of a discipline to criticize the discipline itself. . . ."8S Modernist painters built the critique of the representational tradition into their... | |
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The essence of Modernism lies, as I see it, in the use of the characteristic methods of a discipline to criticize the discipline itself— not in order to subvert it, but to entrench it more firmly in its area of competence. 
