The Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 2 : Arrogant Purpose, 1945-1949 - Clement Greenberg

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The Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 2

Arrogant Purpose, 1945-1949

By: Clement Greenberg, John O'Brian (Editor)

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Paperback | 15 February 1988 | Edition Number 1

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Clement Greenberg (1909-1994), champion of abstract expressionism and modernism-of Pollock, Miro, and Matisse-has been esteemed by many as the greatest art critic of the second half of the twentieth century, and possibly the greatest art critic of all time. On radio and in print, Greenberg was the voice of "the new American painting," and a central figure in the postwar cultural history of the United States.

Greenberg first established his reputation writing for the Partisan Review, which he joined as an editor in 1940. He became art critic for the Nation in 1942, and was associate editor of Commentary from 1945 until 1957. His seminal essay, "Avant-Garde and Kitsch" set the terms for the ongoing debate about the relationship of modern high art to popular culture. Though many of his ideas have been challenged, Greenberg has influenced generations of critics, historians, and artists, and he remains influential to this day.

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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 ""

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Acknowledgments
Editorial Note
Foreword
Trail Blazer: Review ofWilliam Sidney Mount
Obituary and Review of an Exhibition of Kandinsky
Review of Exhibitions of Edgar Degas and Richard Pousette-Dart
Review of an Exhibition of Morris Graves
Review of an Exhibition of Dutch Painting
Steig's Cartoons: Review of All Embarrassed
Review of an Exhibition of Arnold Friedman
Review of an Exhibition of Arshile Gorky
Review of an Exhibitions of Mondrian, Kandinsky, and Pollock; of the Annual Exhibition of the American Abstract Artists; and of the ExhibitionEuropean Artists in America
Review of an Exhibition of Hans Hofmann and a Reconsideration of Mondrian's Theories
Review of an Exhibition of Claude Monet
Review of an Exhibition of Georges Rouault
The Missing Link: Review ofAn Essay on Man
Review of the ExhibitionA Problem for Critics
The Flemish Masters: Review ofThe Last Flowering of the Middle Ages
On Looking at Pictures: Review ofPainting and Painters
Review ofMarc Chagallof Lionello Venturi
Pictures and Prattle: Review ofAbstract and Surrealist Artin America
Review of the BalletDim Luster
Review of Exhibitions of De la Fresnaye and Stuart Davis
Review of the Second Pepsi-Cola Annual
Review of the ExhibitionLandscape; of Two Exhibitions of Käthe Kollwitz; and of the Oil Painting Section of the Whitney Annual
Review ofCézanne's Compositionby Earle Loran 1946
The Storage of Art from Germany at the National Gallery, Washington
Review of Exhibitions of Hyman Bloom, David Smith, and Robert Motherwell
Review of an Exhibition of David Hare
Review of the Water-Color, Drawing, and Sculpture Sections of the Whitney Annual
The Camera's Glass Eye: Review of an Exhibition of Edward Weston
Letter to the Editor ofThe Nation
"Americanism" Misplaced: Review ofPreface to an American Philosophy of Art
Letter to the Editor ofThe Nation
Frontiers of Criticism: Review ofLes Sandales d'Empédocle
Review of Exhibitions of the American Abstract Artists, Jacques Lipchitz, and Jackson Pollock
What the Artist Writes About: Review ofArtists on Art, edited by
Review of Exhibitions of Paul Gauguin and Arshile Gorky
Review of Exhibitions of Max Beckmann and Robert De Niro
Review of an Exhibition of Marc Chagall
Review of an Exhibition of Georgia O'Keeffe
Review of an Exhibition of School of Paris Painters
Jean Dubuffet and French Existentialism
Henri Rousseau and Modern Art
The Impressionists and Proust: Review ofProust and Painting
A Martyr to Bohemia: Review ofOut of This Century
Introduction to "The Great Wall of China"
Review ofThieves in the Night
The Great Precursor: Review ofThe Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci, introduced
Review of the Pepsi-Cola Annual; the ExhibitionFourteen Americans; and the ExhibitionAdvancing American Art 48
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