Really insightful and places the avant-garde developments in modern art in context with industrialisation as well as authoritative regimes, giving a convincing explanation for the Nazi denunciation of modern art as degenerate art or cultural bolshevism (something that the contemporary right wing has adopted again, yay!).

I did find Greenberg's essay somewhat elitist and wished that he could have elaborated on the implications of a "superior" culture, how its superiority is determined, and its necessity. ( )