jan 1, 1940 - Greenberg is critical of surrealism in his essay 'Towards A Newer Laocoon' (1940)

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Greenberg said that 'orthodox surrealists' (member of the Paris surrealist group) had 'reacted against abstract purity and turned back to a confusion of literature with painting as extreme as any of the past' - Greenberg thought surrealist was confusing, merely an absurd reaction to abstract purity, its painting was extreme.

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