{"id":8439,"date":"2019-05-12T17:01:40","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T21:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/?p=8439"},"modified":"2019-05-12T17:01:48","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T21:01:48","slug":"avant-garde-and-kitsch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2019\/05\/avant-garde-and-kitsch\/","title":{"rendered":"Avant-garde and kitsch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> In this podcast, I look at Clement Greenberg&rsquo;s influential article from 1939, &lsquo;Avant-Garde and Kitsch.&rsquo; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/9750242\/height\/360\/theme\/legacy\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/backward\/\" height=\"360\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this podcast, I look at Clement Greenberg&rsquo;s influential article from 1939, &lsquo;Avant-Garde and Kitsch.&rsquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":8432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[253,431,343,1],"tags":[432],"class_list":["post-8439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-podcast","category-turpentine-diaries","category-uncategorized","tag-podcast"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/avatar-2016-3-9-2.jpg?fit=646%2C757&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8451,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2019\/05\/podcast-academic-art\/","url_meta":{"origin":8439,"position":0},"title":"Podcast-academic art","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"May 19, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"I pick up last episode's discussion about Clement Greenberg and the avant-garde and kitsch, and talk about academic art. 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