Clement Greenberg

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

Greenberg was from the late 1930s to the 1970s, an influential, if not dominant person in the American art scene. He and his rival colleague critic Harold Rosenberg coined the reception of Abstract Expressionism crucial.

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

Writings

German

  • Clement Greenberg - The essence of modernity. Selected essays and criticism. Philo, Dresden, 1997, ISBN 3-86572-555-4

English

  • Greenberg, Clement. Art and Culture, Beacon Press, 1961
  • Greenberg, Clement. Late Writings, hrg. 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., Hrg. 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, hrg. Ulrich Pfisterer, Munich: C. H. Beck, 2008

English

  • 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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