It opens discussing how a civilization can produce works as disparate as a T.S Eliot poem and a Tin Pan Alley song and introduces the second title concept as that demanded by peasants to satisfy their boredom, making it the "debased and academicized simulacra of genuine culture.
This essay quotes from Yeats' "Sailing to Byzantium" while discussing how one title concept is "a superior sort of Alexandrianism" and "the imitation of imitating." This article derides Dwight MacDonald as "an ignorant Russian peasant" and offers him a hypothetical choice between paintings by Repin and Picasso, presuming that he will prefer the Repin though it stands no chance next to a cover by Norman Rockwell. It opens discussing how a civilization can produce works as disparate as a T.S Eliot poem and a Tin Pan Alley song and introduces the second title concept as that demanded by peasants to satisfy their boredom, making it the "debased and academicized simulacra of genuine culture." Analyzing how the first title concept arose to defend aesthetic standards from the second, for 10 points, name this essay by Clement Greenberg.
This essay quotes from Yeats' "Sailing to Byzantium" while discussing how one title concept is "a superior sort of Alexandrianism" and "the imitation of imitating.
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