Assertion: avant garde | /r/HasProperty | motivated essay
Facets:
value: clearly
type: MANNER
value: politically
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Avant Garde and Kitsch" is clearly a politically motivated essay, in part a response to the destruction and repression of Modernist Art in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, and represents a denouncement of the growing totalitarian threat in Europe and the "retrogression" of fascism.