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    Clement Greenberg

    SHORTLY BEFORE READING Florence Rubenfeld’s life of Clement Greenberg, inom speculated about it with an art writer who had broken away from Greenberg’s circle. &#;I still say that Greenberg was the greatest critic of the century,&#; he stated. &#;But he was an absolute #@!!&#; The &#;greatest x of the century&#; is an entirely Greenbergian magnification: part of what it meant to be a critic, in his practice, consisted in bestowing gold stars and participating in arguments more often than not ending in fisticuffs, concerning who—Jackson or Bill—was the top living painter. For several decades Greenberg held tenaciously that Jules Olitski was the best painter we have, staking his claim to Best Critic on the prediction that in the fullness of time Olitski’s bestness would be acknowledged. The expletive, on the other hand, was the vulgar underside of the superlative in Greenbergian patois, which was, in the period of his ascendancy, the

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    Summary of Clement Greenberg

    Clement Greenberg was probably the single most influential art critic in the 20th century. Although he is most closely associated with his support for Abstract Expressionism, and in particular Jackson Pollock, his views closely shaped the work of many other artists, including Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis, and Kenneth Noland. His attention to the formal properties of art - color, line, space and so forth - his rigorous approach to criticism, and his understanding of the development of modern art - although they have all been challenged - have influenced generations of critics and historians.

    Accomplishments

    • Clement Greenberg introduced a wealth of ideas into discussion of 20th-century art, elaborating and refining notions such as "kitsch," the "easel picture," and pictorial "flatness," and inventing concepts such as that of the "allover" paint surface and "optical space."
    • Strongly associated with his support for Abstract Expressionism, Gre
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      Clement Greenberg

      American essayist and visual art critic (–)

      Clement Greenberg () (January 16, – May 7, ),[1] occasionally writing under the pseudonym K. Hardesh, was an American essayist known mainly as an art critic closely associated with American modern art of the midth century and a formalist aesthetician. He is best remembered for his association with the art movement abstract expressionism and the painter Jackson Pollock.

      Early life

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      Clement Greenberg was born in the Bronx, New York City, in His parents were middle-class Jewish immigrants, and he was the eldest of their three sons. Since childhood, Greenberg sketched compulsively, until becoming a young adult, when he began to focus on literature. He attended Erasmus Hall High School, the Marquand School for Boys, and Syracuse University, graduating with an A.B. in , cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa.[2] After college, already fluent in Yiddish and English since childhood, Greenberg taught himse