Collected Essays and Criticism: Vol. 2: Arrogant Purpose, 1945-1949 - Hardcover

Greenberg, Clement; John O'Brian (ed.)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226306186 ISBN 13: 9780226306186

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1992

Synopsis

In these two volumes are 121 essays and reviews, contributed to Partisan Review, the Nation commentary and other journals...They have permanent value as documents of the period, and ought also to stimulate anyone who wishes to write well about art.

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Reviews

Best known for championing Jackson Pollock and other abstract expressionists, Greenberg wrote prolifically on Kandinsky, Kafka, William Steig's cartoons, Marianne Moore, Dutch painting and surrealism as the "desire to change life on the spot." For this keen student of history, Currier & Ives prints mark the transition from handicrafts to mass production, and primitive painting channels energies lacking an outlet since the death of true folk art. These two volumes of a projected four-volume set gather Greenberg's writings from Partisan Review, the Nation and elsewhere. His journalism has lost none of its relevance or bite; the essays bristle with independent judgments, wit, profundity. "To find a path to keep culture moving" is the avant-garde artist's role as defined by Greenberg, and these articles gauge the success or failure of artists by that standard.
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Edition details

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226306186
• ISBN 13: 9780226306186
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1