Clement Greenberg A Life Florence Rubenfeld Table of Contents Also of interest: Clement Greenberg, Late Writings		$19.95 Paper ISBN: 0-8166-4435-7 ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-4435-3
The only book-length biography of this controversial critic. Love him or hate him, admire him or revile him, there is no doubt that Clement Greenberg was the most influential critic of modern art in the second half of the twentieth century. His championing of abstract expressionist painters such as Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman, and David Smith put the United States on the international art map. His support for color-field painters Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland dramatically accelerated their careers. The intellectual power of his polemical essays helped bring about the midcentury shift in which New York replaced Paris as the art capital of the Western world; his aggressive personality and fierce involvement in the New York art scene triggered a backlash so potent that one critic termed it a “patricide.” “Rubenfeld has given us an absorbing, fair-minded biography, which is scrupulously sympathetic to her subject.” —The New Yorker “Rubenfeld has written a gossipy, vivid, and above all intelligent life of Clement Greenberg—not an easy figure to depict. At once sympathetic and shrewdly insightful about his polarizing character, she has given us a man whose fabled orneriness and power hunger was redeemed by his love of art.”—James Atlas Florence Rubenfeld was the East Coast editor of the New Art Examiner for many years. She lives in Washington, D.C. 336 pages | 43 halftones | 6 x 9-1/4 | 2004 TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface 1. Icarus in the Art World 2. An Inauspicious Beginning 3. Metamorphosis 4. The New York Intellectuals 5. Highbrow and Jewishness: Twin Poles of Identity 6. Breaking the Ice 7. More on the Jewish Question 8. Influences on Greenberg's Criticism 9. He Wouldn't Join a Club That Would Have Him for a Member 10. Making Enemies and Keeping Them 11. Sowing His Seed 12. Breakup, Breakdown, and Literary Backlash: 1955-57 13. The Chance of a Lifetime: 1958-60 14. Daggers Drawn: The Battle of the Titans 15. The Second Coming: 1961-65 16. Imperial Clem 17. Clemsville: A Secular Halakah 18. The Question of Immortality Notes Index

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