Clement Greenberg, Author, Janice Van Horne, Editor, Janice Horne, With Counterpoint LLC $27.5 (289p) ISBN 978-1-58243-068-3
Legendary modernist art critic Greenberg (Art & Culture, etc.) was known for his harsh opinions. Indeed, one characteristic anecdote tells of his condemning some work by the painter Morris Louis, whereupon Louis destroyed all of the reviled canvases
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Clement Greenberg, Author, John O'Brian, Editor University of Chicago Press $20 (296p) ISBN 978-0-226-30621-6
The first two of a projected four-volume set, these books gather art critic 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,...
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Clement Greenberg, Author, John O'Brian, Editor University of Chicago Press $30 (340p) ISBN 978-0-226-30623-0
These final two volumes of the writings of the esteemed art critic include major and lesser known pieces as well as exchanges with F.R. Leavis, Fairfield Porter and others, as well as biographical summary, selected bibliography and introduction by O'
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Clement Greenberg, Author, John O'Brian, Editor University of Chicago Press $27.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-226-30618-6
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
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Clement Greenberg, Author, Robert C. Morgan, Editor University of Minnesota Press $29.95 (232p) ISBN 978-0-8166-3938-0
The outsized reputation of formalist art critic Greenberg, sometimes called the most influential art critic of the 20th century, rests largely on a body of mid-century writings around the work of Abstract Expressionism and the rise of hard-edge...
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