Krauss: Greenberg's Positivist Approach

Krauss is famed for her dedication to Greenberg’s Modernist approach, however later in her career Krauss also dismissed Greenberg’s theories and severed her ties with Modernism in order to move forward with Postmodernist theory. Later she became enthralled with newer artistic movements that she believed required a different theoretical approach, which focused less on the aesthetic purity of an art form, and more on aesthetics that captured a theme or historical and/or cultural issue.

Krauss’s journey towards rejecting Greenberg’s positivist method undoubtedly shaped her contributions to art criticisms canon. Krauss’s ability to recognize Modernist restrictions, in turn, promoted her desire to champion Structuralism theories and employ these to interpret cultural production. Krauss’s dedication to a Greenberg tradition of reading, art provided the basis from which she was able to change the direction of her role as a critic and maintain a level of rigor Within her critical content. Krauss came to define her new approach toward interpreting art within the …show more content…
By including images of the works she is discussing alongside her own writing and illustrations of the arguments she is making, Krauss is signaling a break away from the traditional format and presentation that Greenberg’s Art and Culture once set. Art and Culture do not include diagrams at any point, nor does Greenberg include any mechanisms to assist readers with comprehending his arguments. Although the inclusion of images and illustrations may seem arbitrary to some, such techniques can have the power to hugely alter one 's reception of criticism. In recognizing the need to provide additional support material to her claims, Krauss is breaking away from the traditional canon Greenberg formed and moving forward into a critical world whereby one must be able to provide additional evidence to reinforce