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Clement Greenberg, Late Writings Clement Greenberg Excerpt from final interview Also of interest: |
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A publishing event: culminating works by a major figure in art history, collected here for the first time! Clement Greenberg (1909-1994) was a colossus of twentieth-century American art, achieving a degree of authority almost unimaginable for a critic today. For more than thirty years he was both lionized as a proponent of formalism and criticized for his perceived dogmatism. In the postwar period Greenberg used his position of influence to advocate the importance of abstract expressionism and color-field painting and to establish the careers of such artists as Jackson Pollock, Hans Hofmann, Barnett Newman, and Willem de Kooning. With the coming of pop art, performance and conceptual art, and postmodernism, however, Greenberg found his position increasingly challenged. Edited with an introduction by critic Robert C. Morgan, Clement Greenberg, Late Writings is the first collection from the period 1970 to 1990, and the only comprehensive resource for Greenberg's thought during the last third of his life. While earlier works have covered Greenberg's early and middle career, this volume spans his mature period, during which he reevaluates and refines many of his earlier tenets in some of his most carefully crafted and engaging work. Exploring a surprising breadth of issues and mediums and demonstrating a depth of aesthetic and philosophical insights, in these relatively unknown works Greenberg incites a new direction for modernism beyond the twentieth century. This essential volume includes five interviews from the end of his life in which Greenberg revisits some of the concerns of his formative years, illuminating the progression of his thought. Late Writings is an integral resource as issues of quality and significance in the dynamic world of art continue to be redefined. “In his reflective and informative introduction to Clement Greenberg, Late Writings, editor Robert C. Morgan attempts to provide a more balanced portrayal of Greenberg as critic than is generally available. Many of the essays discuss and reiterate Greenberg’s primary occupations: the role of the Avant Garde, the significance of Modernism and the centrality of aesthetic experience. Thought-provoking comments refute the characterization of Greenberg as overly simplistice.” —Art Monthly “This excellent collection reveals the dynamic changes that Greenberg went through. However much you may resent his influence on the art world, reading the essays which Morgan includes in Late Writings, you’ll be reminded of a powerful and original mind, a mind worth arguing with.” —Harvard Review “Clement Greenberg, Late Writings offers many new, useful and enlightening nuggets of his thought. It is the interviews which provide the most refreshing and illuminating segment of this book.” —NYArts Magazine “The final section contains a series of interviews that are by turns perceptive, exasperating, and just plain hilarious.” —Bookforum “With sparkle, wisdom and energy Greenberg speaks to the present situation in art more pertinently and persuasively than any contemporary thinker.” —David Cohen, New York Times Book Review “Greenberg’s presence was energizing. He never stopped engaging with art and ideas in what many of his younger interlocutors regarded as a feverish, rough-edged New-York-Jew-of the-30s way. Whether you agreed with him or not, his vehemence left no room for nostalgia. Greenberg produced dozens of the most beautifully shaped essays that any American has ever written about the arts.” —Jed Perl, New Republic “Whether you agree or not with Greenberg’s aesthetic judgments, his commentaries are amongst the best ever written about visual art.” —Artichoke Clement Greenberg was the most influential art critic of the postwar period. He was the author of numerous books, including studies of Joan Miró and Hans Hofmann, and his essays appeared in art magazines as well as such publications as the Partisan Review, Commentary, and The Nation. 232 pages | 5 7/8 x 9 | 2003 Acknowledgments I. The Avant-Garde and Modernism Counter-Avant-Garde II. States of Criticism Necessity of "Formalism" III. Art and Culture Old India: Her Monuments IV. Interviews Clement Greenberg A Conversation with Clement Greenberg in Three Parts An Interview with Clement Greenberg Clement Greenberg: Modernism or Barbarism Clement Greenberg: The Last Interview Notes on Previous Publications |
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