How does the dialectic of autonomous art and critical avant-garde, as presented in the class lectures, play out in the work discussed in your textbook? In order to address this question, the terms have to be addressed first. Greenburg said that autonomous art is the independence of art from society,...

In the 1930s, Surrealism split into two groups: the Automatists and the Veristic Surrealists. Although they were similar, they had many differences. It was said that Automatism was the only type of surrealism accepted by critical reviews after the was (Aronson 125). The basis of each group was dif...