Collected Essays and Criticism: Arrogant Purpose, 1945-1949

by Clement Greenberg

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226306186
• ISBN13: 9780226306186
• Release Date: November 1986
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Greenberg's Essays

The most exciting thing about reading Clement Greenberg's essays is trying to decide how relevant is what he writes in the art world today and how relevant is his work to me as an artist. I read each essay hoping that the next one will give me yet another clue to this queston. The secret dream of what l want art to be - art that is verifiably good and bad through objective aesthetic sensibility - is the core of what Greenberg's essays are about and what makes them so seductive and so painful to read.