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Greenberg, Clement | November 27, 1948 issue

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The article focuses on the collage exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art that amounts to a scandal. Like most of the scandals involving modern art, it has passed largely unnoticed so far, which must be attributed to art public's low state of enlightenment. The collage medium has played a pivotal role in twentieth-century painting and sculpture and it is the most succinct and direct single clue to the aesthetic of genuinely modern art. Collage contributed greatly to the geometrical simplification of shapes that cubism undertook after 1912 and anticipated the transition to its synthetic phase.

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ART, Modern; COLLAGE; EXHIBITIONS; ART museums; SCANDALS; PAINTING; SCULPTURE
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