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- catalog abstract ""Clement Greenberg was born in the Bronx in 1909, the child of Jewish immigrants from Polish Lithuania. He attended Syracuse University, spent three years sleeping late, reading, and frequenting museums, and then toured the country as a traveling salesman for a necktie business owned by his father. By 1935 he was back in New York working at a routine civil service job. One could hardly have predicted that from these inauspicious beginnings would emerge one of the century's premier cultural critics."--BOOK JACKET. "In 1939 he wrote "Avant-Garde and Kitsch," the landmark essay that catapulted him from anonymity to the center of a stellar group of intellectuals known as the Partisan Review crowd - Saul Bellow, Irving Howe, Meyer Schapiro, and Lionel Trilling, among others. The subject of Greenberg's essay was modern society examined through popular culture and painterly abstraction. It was his uncanny response to the form abstraction was going to take in advanced American painting that placed him - with no formal training in art history - at the apex of the art world for the next fifty years."--BOOK JACKET. "Greenberg's independent opinions and combative style soon made him enemies. Greenberg criticized the taste of the Museum of Modern Art, while he sang the praises of artists such as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky, and David Smith when few in the art world took them seriously. By the end of the forties, when his ideas began appearing in Life, Time, and Newsweek, the establishment was compelled to react."--BOOK JACKET. "Florence Rubenfeld traces the rise and fall of this impassioned and provocative critic, telling his story, in part, through his words and the words of the dazzling array of personalities who surrounded him. She provides a new assessment of his profound contribution to art criticism, insights into his influences and identity, and an engaging social history of an infamous postwar milieu, peopled by brilliant intellectuals and ground-breaking artists. Clement Greenberg: A Life is an authoritative account of a remarkable man and the vibrant New York art world he helped to define."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b10721156.
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description ""Clement Greenberg was born in the Bronx in 1909, the child of Jewish immigrants from Polish Lithuania. He attended Syracuse University, spent three years sleeping late, reading, and frequenting museums, and then toured the country as a traveling salesman for a necktie business owned by his father. By 1935 he was back in New York working at a routine civil service job. One could hardly have predicted that from these inauspicious beginnings would emerge one of the century's premier cultural critics."--BOOK JACKET. "In 1939 he wrote "Avant-Garde and Kitsch," the landmark essay that catapulted him from anonymity to the center of a stellar group of intellectuals known as the Partisan Review crowd - Saul Bellow, Irving Howe, Meyer Schapiro, and Lionel Trilling, among others. The subject of Greenberg's essay was modern society examined through popular culture and painterly abstraction. ".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-322) and index.".
- catalog description "It was his uncanny response to the form abstraction was going to take in advanced American painting that placed him - with no formal training in art history - at the apex of the art world for the next fifty years."--BOOK JACKET. "Greenberg's independent opinions and combative style soon made him enemies. Greenberg criticized the taste of the Museum of Modern Art, while he sang the praises of artists such as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky, and David Smith when few in the art world took them seriously. By the end of the forties, when his ideas began appearing in Life, Time, and Newsweek, the establishment was compelled to react."--BOOK JACKET. "Florence Rubenfeld traces the rise and fall of this impassioned and provocative critic, telling his story, in part, through his words and the words of the dazzling array of personalities who surrounded him. ".
- catalog description "She provides a new assessment of his profound contribution to art criticism, insights into his influences and identity, and an engaging social history of an infamous postwar milieu, peopled by brilliant intellectuals and ground-breaking artists. Clement Greenberg: A Life is an authoritative account of a remarkable man and the vibrant New York art world he helped to define."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "336 p., [16] p. of plates :".
- catalog hasFormat "Clement Greenberg.".
- catalog identifier "0684191105 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Clement Greenberg.".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York, NY : Scribner,".
- catalog relation "Clement Greenberg.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "709/.2 B 21".
- catalog subject "Art critics United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Greenberg, Clement, 1909-".
- catalog subject "Greenberg, Clement, 1909-1994.".
- catalog subject "N7483.G73 R83 1998".
- catalog title "Clement Greenberg : a life / Florence Rubenfeld.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".