Clement Greenberg

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Clement Greenberg (born January 16, 1909 in New York ; † May 7, 1994 ) was an American art critic .

Greenberg became an influential, if not dominant, person on the American art scene from the late 1930s through the 1970s . He and his rival critic Harold Rosenberg had a decisive influence on the reception of Abstract Expressionism .

Greenberg lived and worked in New York. He was an advocate for the autonomy of art and one of the pioneers for Informel and Color Field Painting .

Fonts

German

  • Clement Greenberg - The Essence of Modernity. Selected essays and reviews. Philo, Dresden 1997, ISBN 3-86572-555-4

English

  • Greenberg, Clement. Art and Culture , Beacon Press , 1961
  • Greenberg, Clement. Late Writings, ed. by Robert C. Morgan , St. Paul: University of Minnesota Press, 2003.
  • Greenberg, Clement. Homemade Esthetics: Observations on Art and Taste . Oxford University Press , 1999.
  • Clement Greenberg: The Collected Essays and Criticism. 4 vols. , ed. by John O'Brian. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986 and 1993.

Secondary literature

German

  • "Clement Greenberg" in: Classics of Art History, Volume 2: From Panofsky to Greenberg , ed. by Ulrich Pfisterer, Munich: CH Beck, 2008

English

  • Bruce Guenther: Clement Greenberg: A Critic's Collection , Portland Art Museum , Princeton University Press, 2001.
  • Caroline A. Jones: Eyesight Alone: ​​Clement Greenberg's Modernism and the Bureaucratization of the Senses . University of Chicago Press, 2005.
  • Donald Kuspit: Clement Greenberg: Art Critic. University of Wisconsin, 1979.
  • Alice Goldfarb Marquis: Art Czar: The Rise and Fall of Clement Greenberg. Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 2006, ISBN 978-0-87846-701-3
  • Florence Rubenfeld: Clement Greenberg: A Life . Scribner , 1997.
  • Deniz Tekiner: "Formalist Art Criticism and the Politics of Meaning." Social Justice , Issue on Art, Power, and Social Change, 33: 2 (2006).

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personal data
SURNAME Greenberg, Clement
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American art critic
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1994
Place of death New York City