Greenberg's political views shifted greatly after the war. But other essays during this time also put forth his views on modern European painting by the likes of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Cézanne, Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso. In particular he published "Avant-Garde and Kitsch," an essay which undertook an ambitious analysis of the relationship of modern high art to popular culture. He first established his reputation writing for Partisan Review, which at the time was the seminal publication for culture and the arts in the city, with offices near Astor Place in Greenwich Village. They moved in with her mother in Carmel, and two years later they had a son, Danny, but after a few years Greenberg divorced and moved back to New York City, where he lived for the rest of his life.īack in New York, Greenberg began making connections with various critics and writers, most of whom were Jewish Trotskyites who became known as the New York Intellectuals ( Harold Rosenberg was also part of this group). While on a business trip to California in 1934, he met and quickly married a local librarian. After graduation, he wandered aimlessly through a series of jobs with newspapers and credit agencies. Greenberg graduated from Syracuse University in 1930 with a degree in English Literature.
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