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Clement Greenberg, who died in 1994, is still considered by many to have been the greatest American art critic of the 20th Century. Even today his work continues to be discussed, supported and attacked by many of the cognoscenti of the art world. "Art and Culture" is a collection of his essays that he edited for publication in 1961.
21 de jul. de 2014 · Possibly the most renowned art critic in American history, Clement Greenberg (1904-1994) held sway for years in the postwar period over not only the popular perception of contemporary art being made in this country but also how the artists themselves thought about it and brought it into being in their studios. While his reign eventually came to an end, with opinion turning against his dogmatic ...
Idea of Modern Art, translated by Arthur Goldhammer, (University of Chicago Press: Chicago, 1983), p. 155; Christopher Lasch, The ... Art Criticism of Clement Greenberg', Art-as-Politics, (University of Michigan Press: Ann Arbor, 1982), pp. 142-3, 157. 10. Charles Harrison and Paul Wood, Editorial
1 de jun. de 1998 · The new view would become crystallized in a book by Serge Guilbaut, How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art (1983), which placed Greenberg’s opinions on art in the context of his anti-Communism. Greenberg, in Guilbaut’s influential reading, was to be understood as an aesthetic cold warrior, one who promoted American art as a vehicle of American hegemony.
In its sustained analysis of pre-modern art outside the context of an exhibition, ‘Byzantine Parallels’ is an anomalous text in Clement Greenberg’s published oeuvre. The purpose of Greenberg’s essay comes into higher relief when examined against the
Clement Greenberg was perhaps the first to identify and celebrate the emergence of Color Field Painting. He did the most to explore it in his 1955 essay, 'American-Type Painting,' in which he argued that the style advanced a tendency in modern painting to apply color in large areas or 'fields.'
1 de jul. de 2006 · What Clement Greenberg Knew. Quarrelsome, dogmatic, politically obtuse, he nevertheless saw what was transcendent in modern art. Among his various distinctions, Clement Greenberg (1909-1994) is one of the few art critics to have been portrayed in a movie. He figures prominently in Pollock, Ed Harris's 2000 biopic about the life of the painter ...
