by Paul Krainak | May 3, 2021 | Blog
By Paul Krainak Decades before Pop Art and a subsequent stream of voyeuristic postmodern imagery, Clement Greenberg believed a micro-climate of introspective abstract art and an ill wind of kitsch was a public battleground. He reasoned that the latter quelled...
by Paul Krainak | Mar 26, 2021 | Blog
By Paul Krainak “Sub-rural” extends a column I wrote for a regional journal over the past four years. Titled “Inland Art”, it was an outgrowth of the Inland Visual Studies Center founded at Bradley University in 2008. The center was a cultural and programmatic...