Art and Culture: Critical Essays
by Clement Greenberg
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"Clement Greenberg is, internationally, the best-known American art critic popularly considered to be the man who put American vanguard painting and sculpture on the world map. . . . An important book for everyone interested in modern painting and sculpture."-The New York TimesTags
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I have read the first essay so far. Whilst I can see immediately he was part of the intellectual revolution that the ideologies of Communism and Fascism warred over in Europe, he was very perceptive about kitsch.
I don't think he would get away today with saying that the levels of art in a culture are divided between the bourgeois and the proletariat but he makes some insightful comments about imitation and the abstract.
Definitely worth reading if you are into art history or interested in art.
I don't think he would get away today with saying that the levels of art in a culture are divided between the bourgeois and the proletariat but he makes some insightful comments about imitation and the abstract.
Definitely worth reading if you are into art history or interested in art.
I have read the first essay so far. Whilst I can see immediately he was part of the intellectual revolution that the ideologies of Communism and Fascism warred over in Europe, he was very perceptive about kitsch.
I don't think he would get away today with saying that the levels of art in a culture are divided between the bourgeois and the proletariat but he makes some insightful comments about imitation and the abstract.
Definitely worth reading if you are into art history or interested in art.
I don't think he would get away today with saying that the levels of art in a culture are divided between the bourgeois and the proletariat but he makes some insightful comments about imitation and the abstract.
Definitely worth reading if you are into art history or interested in art.
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Clement Greenberg was born in the Bronx in 1909, and was educated at Syracuse University. He became an editor of Partisan Review in 1940, art critic of The Nation in 1942, and associate editor of Commentary in 1945. His books include Art and Culture, the four-volume Collected Essays and Criticism, and the posthumous Homemade Esthetics. He died in show more New York City in 1994, at the age of eighty-five. show less
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- 1961
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