Discourse of "anti-" review addendum

Does Surrealism deserve the middle column? An interesting comparison is Clement Greenberg’s essay “Avant Garde Attitudes” (1968). Greenberg argues that the art movement that first proposed a position that would “transcend” (Greenberg’s term) the high/low distinction was Dada and Greenberg called this the “popular avant garde”. Greenberg says also that some Surrealists joined the popular avant garde so on this point it does appear that Greenberg would agree with Shain that Surrealism goes in the middle column. If we take Greenberg’s position Dada heads up the center also.

Shain’s argument that Dada may have always been under the jurisdiction of Aesthetic may be an attempt to save Dada and abandon Surrealism, but if Greenberg is right this won’t work because it was the idea of Dada to take the center column in the first place, i.e. transcend the high/low distinction. Surrealism followed Dada’s footsteps.

Who’s right, Greenberg or Shain?