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Art and culture : critical essays / Clement Greenberg.

By: Greenberg, Clement, 1909-1994 [author].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Boston : Beacon Press, 1965Copyright date: ©1989Description: x, 278 pages ; 21 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0807066818 (paperback); 9780807066812.Subject(s): Arts, Modern -- 19th century | Arts, Modern -- 20th century | Art, Modern | Art criticism | Modernism (Art) | Kitsch | Avant-garde (Aesthetics)DDC classification: 700.904
Contents:
Culture in general -- Avant-garde and kitsch -- The plight of culture -- Art in Paris -- The later Monet -- Renoir --Cézanne -- Picasso at seventy-five -- Collage -- Georges Rouault -- Braque -- Marc Chagall -- Master Léger -- Jacques Lipschitz -- Kandinsky -- Soutine -- The School of Paris: 1946 -- Contribution to a symposium -- Art in general: “Primitive” painting -- Abstract, representational and so forth – The new sculpture -- Partisan Review “Art Chronicle”: 1952 -- The crisis of the easel picture -- Modernist sculpture, its pictorial past -- Wyndham Lewis against abstract art -- Byzantine parallels -- On the role of nature in modernist painting -- Art in the United States -- Thomas Eakins -- John Marin -- Winslow Homer -- Hans Hofmann -- Milton Avery -- David Smith – “American-type” painting -- The late thirties in New York -- Literature: T.S. Eliot: a book review -- A Victorian novel -- Bertolt Brecht's poetry -- Kafka's Jewishness.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"Clement Greenberg is, internationally, the best-known American art critic popularly considered to be the man who put American vanguard painting and sculpture on the world map. . . . An important book for everyone interested in modern painting and sculpture."-- The New York Times

Includes index.

Culture in general -- Avant-garde and kitsch -- The plight of culture -- Art in Paris -- The later Monet -- Renoir --Cézanne -- Picasso at seventy-five -- Collage -- Georges Rouault -- Braque -- Marc Chagall -- Master Léger -- Jacques Lipschitz -- Kandinsky -- Soutine -- The School of Paris: 1946 -- Contribution to a symposium -- Art in general: “Primitive” painting -- Abstract, representational and so forth – The new sculpture -- Partisan Review “Art Chronicle”: 1952 -- The crisis of the easel picture -- Modernist sculpture, its pictorial past -- Wyndham Lewis against abstract art -- Byzantine parallels -- On the role of nature in modernist painting -- Art in the United States -- Thomas Eakins -- John Marin -- Winslow Homer -- Hans Hofmann -- Milton Avery -- David Smith – “American-type” painting -- The late thirties in New York -- Literature: T.S. Eliot: a book review -- A Victorian novel -- Bertolt Brecht's poetry -- Kafka's Jewishness.

CIT Module ARTS 8002 - Supplementary reading.

MTU Cork Module ARTS8003 - Recommended reading.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Clement Greenberg (January 16, 1909 - May 7, 1994) was the author of Juan Miro and Matisse . His essays have appeared in the New Republic, Nation, Partisan Review, Art News, New York Times and Horizon , among others.