Abstract Expressionism: "10th street touch"-- example?

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I need help from a modern art wonk (Fessie? Miller?). I’m reading Clement Greenberg on post-painterly abstraction and that’s all well and nice, but he mentions (a little disparagingly) what he calls the “10th St Touch”, by which he seems to be referring to a mannerist late trend of 50s and 60s AE. What would be a good example of this? Any big names, or was it sort of the 80s neo-impressionism of the 60s and mostly destined for hotel lobbies?

(and it’s been MONTHS since we had a raging modern art thread!)

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Wow, like a rock. One bump, then I’ll let it die a natural death.

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I haven’t heard the phrase. I checked Wikipedia and no joy.

I assume 10th Street is in NYC? Most likely somewhere in the Village or East Village?

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Google gave me this page this page, from James Meyers’ Minimalism, Art and Polemics in the 1960s.

I can’t help but wonder if Greenberg’s influence will still be felt in 100 years. I disagree with pretty much everything he wrote – if you reduce art to theory, why bother making the art? Isn’t it redundant? Or an illustration? Just doesn’t make sense.

The funny thing is, The Art-Buying Public does embrace non-representational art. But not as an expression of theory - they enjoy its immediacy and intensity, its tactile and fluid nature.