Word: greenbergian
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Granted, the old Greenbergian version of Modernism -- the idea that art advances by shedding its superfluities and ending up in a state of idealized blandness, flat frontal sheets of color, a discourse of the medium alone -- cuts no ice today. Granted, too, the recoil from such prescriptions was both inevitable and justified. And yet color-field painting did produce some very beautiful and rigorous works, and it is hard to see how an exhibition that includes six Jasper Johnses and five Andy Warhols could not have found room for a Morris Louis Unfurled or a Kenneth Noland target...
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