The Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 2: Arrogant Purpose, 1945-1949 - Softcover

Greenberg, Clement

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226306224 ISBN 13: 9780226306223

Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 1988

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Book by Greenberg Clement

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With the publication of the first two volumes of Clement Greenberg's Collected Essays and Criticism, we are at last on our way to having a comprehensive edition of the most important body of art criticism produced by an American writer in this century. The two volumes now available--Perceptions and Judgments, 1939-1944 and Arrogant Purpose, 1945-1949--bring together for the first time Mr. Greenberg's critical writings from the decade in which he emerged as the most informed and articulate champion of the New York School as well as one of our most trenchant analysts of the modern cultural scene.--Hilton Kramer "The New Criterion "

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Clement Greenberg (1909-1994), champion of abstract expressionism and modernism--of Pollock, Mir , and Matisse--has been esteemed by many as the greatest art critic of the second half of the twentieth century, and possibly the greatest art critic of all time. On radio and in print, Greenberg was the voice of "the new American painting," and a central figure in the postwar cultural history of the United States. Greenberg first established his reputation writing for the Partisan Review, which he joined as an editor in 1940. He became art critic for the Nation in 1942, and was associate editor of Commentary from 1945 until 1957. His seminal essay, "Avant-Garde and Kitsch" set the terms for the ongoing debate about the relationship of modern high art to popular culture. Though many of his ideas have been challenged, Greenberg has influenced generations of critics, historians, and artists, and he remains influential to this day.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0226306224
• ISBN 13: 9780226306223
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 374
• Herausgeber: O'Brian John