内容説明
"With the publication of the first two volumes of Clement Greenberg's "Collected Essays and Criticism," we are at last on our way to having a comprehensive edition of the most important body of art criticism produced by an American writer in this century. The two volumes now available--"Perceptions and Judgments, 1939-1944" and "Arrogant Purpose, 1945-1949"--bring together for the first time Mr. Greenberg's critical writings from the decade in which he emerged as the most informed and articulate champion of the New York School as well as one of our most trenchant analysts of the modern cultural scene."--Hilton Kramer, "The New Criterion"
From Publishers Weekly
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.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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