Other Criteria
另类准则

Reducing the range of reference has always been the appointed task of formalist thought.Its attempt was to discipline art criticism in the manner of scientific experiment,through the isolation of a single variable.One graver objection concerns Greenberg's management of pre-modern art,and this needs discussion because Greenberg's Modernism defines itself in opposition to the Old Masters.If the opposition becomes unstable,Modernism may have to be redefined by other criteria.