Eyesight Alone: Clement Greenberg's Modernism and the Bureaucratization of the Senses

by Caroline A. Jones

Book Overview

Even a decade after his death, Clement Greenberg remains controversial. One of the most influential art writers of the twentieth century, Greenberg propelled Abstract Expressionist painting-in particular the monumental work of Jackson Pollock-to a leading position in an international postwar art world. 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226409511
• ISBN13: 9780226409511
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 4.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 7.0" x 10.0"