Main entry:

Greenberg, Clement, 1909-1994.

Title & Author:

Art and culture : critical essays / Clement Greenberg.

Publication:

Boston : Beacon Press, ©1989.

Description:

x, 278 pages ; 21 cm

Series:

Beacon paperback ; 212

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and 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 Lipchitz -- 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.

Summary:

"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."

ISBN:

9780807066812 (pbk.)
0807066818 (pbk.)

Subject:

Arts, Modern 19th century.
Arts, Modern 20th century.
Arts, Modern.
Arts 19e siècle.
Arts 20e siècle.
Konst historia.
Art 20th century.
Art 19th century.

Added entries:

Beacon paperbacks ; 212.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 126257
Call No.: ID NX454.G73; ID:97-B1016
Status: Available