The Harold Letters - Softcover

Greenberg, Clement

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1582432392 ISBN 13: 9781582432397

Publisher: Catapult, 2003

Synopsis

Candid, breathless, arrogant, ambitious--here, in his own words, is Clement Greenberg, a young man of limitless intellectual appetite on his way to becoming the twentieth century's greatest art critic . Clement Greenberg was, and remains, America's most perceptive, prescient, and influential art critic. More alive than any of his contemporaries to the genius of art in his time, it was Greenberg who, in the 1940s and '50s, charted and celebrated the rise of Abstract Expressionism. The authority of his aesthetic judgment, and the force and clarity of his arguments, went far to establish those artists whose work he championed--Pollock, de Kooning, Hans Hofmann, David Smith.

Before all that, however, he was a young man burning to become an intellectual, to make what he called Important Discoveries about art and life. His confidant during these early years was Harold Lazarus, a classmate at Syracuse University and a future professor of English. From 1928, when both were nineteen, until 1943, when they went their separate ways, the two exchanged honest, funny, deeply personal letters, collected by his widow, Janice Van Horne.

About this title

About the Author

Clement Greenberg (1904-1994) was a lifelong New Yorker. His works include Art and Culture and the four-volume Collected Essays and Criticism, 1939-1969.

Edition details

• Publisher: Catapult
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1582432392
• ISBN 13: 9781582432397
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 340