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	Clement Greenberg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Clement Greenberg (January 16, 1909 – May 7, 1994) was an influential American art critic who was closely associated with the institutionalization of abstract art in the United States.
		Greenberg's view that after the war the United States had become the guardian of 'advanced art' was taken up in some quarters as a reason for using Abstract Expressionism as the basis for Cultural Propaganda exercises.
		Greenberg believed this process attained a level of purity that would reveal the truthfulness of the canvas, which would further celebrate the two-dimensional aspects of the space (flatness).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clement_Greenberg (757 words)

	Greenberg, Clement
		Greenberg went to Toronto at the suggestion of Jock MACDONALD and William RONALD in June, 1957.
		In 1962 Greenberg was guest critic at the EMMA LAKE ARTISTS' WORKSHOPS, where he introduced the work of Morris Louis, Jules Olitski and Kenneth Noland to a Canadian audience, stimulated Andrew Hudson as a critic, and had a significant impact on painters Kenneth LOCHHEAD, Dorothy KNOWLES and Ernest LINDNER.
		Greenberg became an extraordinarily controversial figure, widely reviled as authoritarian, élitist, and exclusionary by such artists as Ronald Bloore, and praised by many others as a great eye, a defender of high artistic standards, a stimulus to creativity and a generous entrée to art abroad.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&TCE_Version=A&ArticleId=A0010025&mState=1 (389 words)

	CLEMENT GREENBERG PAPERS, 1928-1995 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Clement Greenberg, born in 1909 to Lithuanian Jewish immigrants, was raised in New York City, Norfolk, Virginia, and Brooklyn.
		Greenberg is most remembered for having recognized the achievements of Pollock, Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, and other abstract expressionists at a time when few others could perceive them, and still fewer could explain them.
		Greenberg's reputation began to decline in the late 1970s after it was discovered that, while serving as the executor of David Smith's estate, he had had the paint stripped from six Smith sculptures.
	www.getty.edu /research/conducting_research/finding_aids/greenbrg_m4.html (731 words)

	Columbia Museum of Art: General Info (2003 News Releases) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Clement Greenberg was born in the Bronx to Russian immigrants in 1909.
		Greenberg is widely celebrated as this country's greatest art critic, his direct prose and fierce conviction advocated a new style of American art, one based on abstraction and a dedication to the formal properties of art: line, gesture, and color.
		Clement Greenberg: A Critic's Collection will be on exhibition in the Lipscomb Family Galleries and the Dawn Helfont Christopher Galleries at the Columbia Museum of Art from March 15 to June 15, 2003 with a members opening reception Friday, March 14th from 6:00 to 9:00pm.
	www.colmusart.org /html/news2003/0202.shtml (898 words)

	Clem Speaks
		Greenberg responds that information itself is neutral, but has played a role in the crisis in art education, noting that trendiness has penetrated all the way to Western.
		Greenberg replies that he was very nice and very sophisticated (except when drinking, which he did in a radical manner).
		Greenberg replies that when it is good it is as good as painting; same goes for all forms of printmaking.
	newcrit.art.wmich.edu /cg/ClemSpeaks.html (355 words)

	Clement Greenberg: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Clement Greenberg (January 16, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Greenberg made his name as an art critic with his essay Avant Garde and Kitsch, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Through the 1960s and 1970s Greenberg remained an influential figure on a younger generation of critics including Michael Fried and Rosalind Krauss.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/cl/clement_greenberg.htm (1239 words)

	barnett newman zips
		Greenberg takes on the task of defining the interests of Rothko, Still and Newman, discussing the character of content in and similarity of their works, and suggesting some ways in which their art can be understood and appreciated.
		Greenberg establishes a clear opposition here between draftsmanship, compactness and rectilinearity in cubism or painterliness and tactility in abstract expressionism and the color, openness and thin applications of paint (the dyed effects) that characterize the work of Newman and his bedfellows.
		The vocabulary that Greenberg uses in his discussions of Rothko, Still and Newman begins to seem quite opaque at times; it is often as confusing as his apparent ignorance of the conspicuous zips on Newman's canvases.
	www.cm.aces.utexas.edu /faculty/skrukowski/writings/zips.html (1588 words)

	rothman
		Clement Greenberg, renowned as the most significant mid-century American art critic and arguably the most articulate champion of modernist abstraction, might well have been expected to embrace the paintings of Wassily Kandinsky as, at the very least, precursors and models to the paintings of the New York artists that he most admired.
		Greenberg's criticism of Kandinsky in particular was also Hofmann's.[6] And during the 1940s and 1950s, this particular criticism was so pervasive that even figurative painters agreed with the critic.
		Greenberg's perception of the surface as "pocked with 'holes'" belongs to a discourse with a long history&emdash;one in which abstraction was first developed and defended through its relation to music.
	www.eiu.edu /~modernity/rothman.html (4577 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Clement Greenberg: An Appreciation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		...Greenberg did not go in much for religion, but we can be pretty sure that he would have endorsed Dostoevsky's observation in The Brothers Karamazov that "beauty is the battlefield where God and the devil war for the soul of man...
		...Greenberg, by contrast, instantly discerned that something important was going on in Abstract Expressionism (as it would come to be called), and his criticism sounded a new and vigorous note...
		...But if aestheticism was the price Greenberg paid for his championship of high art, it is all the more poignant that he should have concluded, as in the Pound case, that aestheticism could be one of the most degrading and insidious enemies of life-and hence, ultimately, of art itself...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V98I3P52-1.htm (2628 words)

	Gadfly Online.
		Clement Greenberg died on 7 May 1994, at the age of eighty-five.
		Public denunciation of Greenberg’s views remains, in some circles, proof of independence of mind and seriousness—as it did in the last decade of his life—but today his work is increasingly discussed with renewed respect and curiosity and the work of the artists he championed greeted with new enthusiasm.
		The essays that established and sustained Greenberg’s reputation are again being read, not with ironic detachment, as artifacts of a rapidly receding past whose prejudices and peculiarities must be corrected by present-day sensibilities, but with new interest and attention.
	www.gadflyonline.com /9-2-01/art-greenberg.HTML (1015 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Art, Politics & Clement Greenberg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		...Greenberg was writing during a period of considerable artistic confusion in America, with four major movements contending in a stylistic free-for-all: the "Americanscene" painters, from Thomas Hart Benton to Grant Wood...
		...BORN in the Bronx, Clement Greenberg was the eldest of four children of first-generation Jewish immigrants from Lithuania...
		...The Greenberg who was so precise in making Kantian distinctions, and so voluble in articulating them, paid taciturn visits to studios where his only form of communication was a peremptory grunt in front of something he liked, a slightly different grunt to signify the opposite...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V105I6P59-1.htm (3904 words)

	Sunday Morning - Exhibit A: Clement Greenberg - Changing the Way We See - part 5 -10/04/2005
		And in reaction to this pop kitsch, Greenberg argued that the so-called avant garde were producing art for art's sake which talked only to themselves and to the cultural elite.
		Born in 1909 in the Bronx, with a Lithuanian-Jewish background, politically the young Greenberg was attracted to Marxism, and in particular to American 'cultural Trotskyism'.
		Greenberg at bottom had an elitist notion that art was for the happy few, as it were, who have the perception and understanding to truly appreciate it and evaluate it.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/arts/sunmorn/stories/s1338911.htm (4081 words)

	Amazon.com: Clement Greenberg Late Writings: Books: Clement Greenberg,Robert C. Morgan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Clement Greenberg was inclined to give young people the benefit of the doubt, and it shows: his defense of modernist values was none too dessicated, even in this era, and there are shades of Rothkonia in the packaging of this book.
		However, by this point, Greenberg's essays were beginning to sound like a stuck record- the flexibility and openness of his classic criticism of the 1940s and 1950s was replaced by an ossified aesthetic, a dogma which prevented him from dealing relevantly with artistic practice from the 1960s onwards.
		Greenberg's writing became a little thicker as he aged, but he is about as down-to-earth as a critic of his type can be.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0816639388?v=glance (1888 words)

	abstraction
		Clement Greenberg, art critic and champion of abstract painting, saw art's natural course to be a purification of medium and the elimination of the influence of other media.
		In Greenberg's hierarchy, abstract art is the pinnacle of the medium because it has succeeded (according to Greenberg) in stripping away other media.
		Greenberg's "Laocoon" essay narrates several centuries of the history of art and ultimately argues for the dominance of abstract art not because of any conscious decision but because of "the imperative [of] history" (37).
	humanities.uchicago.edu /faculty/mitchell/glossary2004/abstraction.htm (1768 words)

	artnet.com Magazine Reviews - A Critic's Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		"Clement Greenberg: A Critic's Collection," July 14-Sept. 16, 2001, at the Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, Ore. 97205.
		Greenberg was the connoisseur of a particular kind of art, and his collection is designed to show that it is the only kind of art that matters -- the grand American climax of 20th-century abstraction.
		Greenberg bashing seems to have become an industry in itself, but his collection makes clear that in attacking his formalist esthetics -- backed up by a brilliant historical and philosophical argument, summarized in Karen Wilkin's essay in the handsome, comprehensive catalogue -- one is attacking the very idea of fine art.
	www.artnet.com /Magazine/REVIEWS/kuspit/kuspit8-2-01.asp (434 words)

	Clement Greenberg as the American art world remembers him
		On the first morning they arrived late, but after about ten minutes, they were so fascinated by Greenberg and his way of looking that they hung around, and on the other mornings they arrived early so to miss nothing.
		I think that Barr, Shapiro, and Clem Greenberg were the three major figures for modern art in the fifties, when I was formed.
		They all said one of the most important ways that modern art differs from older art is that it is not in the service of the government, history, or mythology -- all the large collective institutional structures of the society -- but, that modern art arises, to some extent, as a critique of these institutions.
	www.jasonkaufman.com /articles/clement_greenberg_as_the_america.htm (2227 words)

	1989. "Avant-Garde and Kitsch, Fifty Years Later: a conversation with Clement Greenberg."
		Greenberg begins his essay by comparing T.S. Eliot’s poems to that of Eddie Guest and also notes that the same culture that produces a painting by Braque also produces Saturday Evening Post covers.
		Greenberg sites a quote about soviet culture, which implies that the soviet government is responsible for the appeal of kitsch in that country.
		Greenberg ends the interview by saying that effect is the content of kitsch and that he still believes in the terms of an avant-garde.
	home.flash.net /~rwsart/writing/1989.html (743 words)

	Printable Version on Encyclopedia.com
		GREENBERG, CLEMENT [Greenberg, Clement] 1909-94, American art critic, b.
		Greenberg's criticism was primarily concerned with art produced after abstract expressionism.
		Greenberg's philosophy of art was outlined in a series of lectures posthumously published as Homemade Esthetics (1999).
	www.encyclopedia.com /printable.aspx?id=1E1:greenberc (93 words)

	Clement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		circa 98 CE Clement of Alexandria, died c.
		Clement Richard Attlee (1883-1967) Prime Minister of UK (1945-1951)
		Pope Clement I, died circe 98 CE, titled "Saint" and patron of mariners and stonecutters
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clement (146 words)

	ARMAVIRUMQUE: THE NEW CRITERION'S WEBLOG
		Clement Greenberg wrote for an educated audience outside of the universities.
		A new element in the Greenberg story -- notably absent from Florence Rubenfeld's "Clement Greenberg: A Life" (1997), a chatty biography that referred to its subject as "Clem" -- is a collection of letters from Greenberg to Harold Lazarus, a friend since childhood.
		In an age when much art criticism is "conducted in a self-referential mumble," she says, "his rhetoric remains a benchmark for persuasive prose in the field of aesthetics." Her biography is a benchmark as well, for discussions of the life and legacy of Clement Greenberg.
	www.newcriterion.com /weblog/armavirumque.html (873 words)

	ArtandCulture Artist: Clement Greenberg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Clement Greenberg began pronouncing his aesthetic judgements in the 1930s, inaugurating a personal Golden Age that lasted into the ‘50s.
		Central to Greenberg’s aesthetic theory is a notion of self-reference: each painting that enters the continuum of art history is a critique of painting.
		Greenberg continued to write about art well into the 1990s; three years before his death he penned “The Notion of Post-Modern.” While much of post-Greenberg art criticism is dedicated to dismantling his ideas, the contemporary critic Matthew Collings insists, “He should be anybody’s favorite American art critic.”
	www.artandculture.com /cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/artist?id=583 (570 words)

	Clement - Hal Clement
		The Bull of Pope Clement V on the Rule of the Friars Minor: 1312 AD.
		An illustrated biography of Joseph Clement Coll - a master of pen and ink.
		Clement Greenberg (January 16, 1909 - May 7, 1994) was an influential American art critic who was closely associated with the institutionalization of
	fita.yournetpath.com /?q=fita-clement (141 words)

	Clement Greenberg, Late Writings
		Clement Greenberg (1909-1994) was a colossus of twentieth-century American art, achieving a degree of authority almost unimaginable for a critic today.
		In the postwar period Greenberg used his position of influence to advocate the importance of abstract expressionism and color-field painting and to establish the careers of such artists as Jackson Pollock, Hans Hofmann, Barnett Newman, and Willem de Kooning.
		While earlier works have covered Greenberg's early and middle career, this volume spans his mature period, during which he reevaluates and refines many of his earlier tenets in some of his most carefully crafted and engaging work.
	www.upress.umn.edu /Books/G/greenberg_clement.html (648 words)

	'Critic's Collection' needs weeding / Portland shows Greenberg's favorites
		Almost all of the objects on view came to Greenberg as gifts, tokens of the artists' thanks for the illuminating attention he paid them and their work, especially in studio visits.
		Greenberg's pre-eminence then rested on defining what came after the heyday of abstract expressionism, a term he never endorsed.
		Doubts boiled over in print when it was revealed that Greenberg, as executor of the David Smith estate, had apparently had some of the artist's work painted or repainted posthumously.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/07/31/DD217470.DTL&type=printable (816 words)

	Salon \| Books: Clement Greenberg: A Life
		Make no mistake, bashing Clement Greenberg, the mid-century macho art critic credited for single-handedly making the careers of such modern art luminaries as Jackson Pollock, is a practice still alive and well among those who traffic within the ethereal territory of visual art theory.
		However, Florence Rubenfeld's new biography, "Clement Greenberg: A Life," is the latest addition to a recent movement that has sought to reexamine the virtue of Greenberg's critical theory.
		While "Clement Greenberg: A Life" ends with several renowned critics and scholars acknowledging Greenberg's exile from visual art's ivory tower as symbolic patricide, only the passage of time will reveal whether the brokers of the current dialogue are ready for the return of their prodigal father.
	www.salon.com /books/sneaks/1998/03/26review.html (488 words)

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