Clement Greenberg Between the Lines: Including a Debate with Clement Greenberg - Softcover

De Duve, Thierry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226175162 ISBN 13: 9780226175164

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2010

Synopsis

Clement Greenberg (1909–1994), champion of abstract expressionism and modernism—of Pollock, Miró, 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. This volume, a lively reassessment of Greenberg’s writings, features three approaches to the man and his work: Greenberg as critic, doctrinaire, and theorist. The book also features a transcription of a public debate with Greenberg that de Duve organized at the University of Ottawa in 1988. Clement Greenberg Between the Lines will be an indispensable resource for students, scholars, and enthusiasts of modern art.

“In this compelling study, Thierry de Duve reads Greenberg against the grain of the famous critic’s critics—and sometimes against the grain of the critic himself. By reinterpreting Greenberg’s interpretations of Pollock, Duchamp, and other canonical figures, de Duve establishes new theoretical coordinates by which to understand the uneasy complexities and importance of Greenberg’s practice.” John O’Brian, editor of Clement Greenberg: The Collected Essays and Criticisms

“De Duve is an expert on theoretical aesthetics and thus well suited to reassess the formalist tenets of the late American art critic's theory on art and culture. . . . De Duve's close readings of Greenberg . . . contain much of interest, and the author clearly enjoys matching wits with ‘the world's best known art critic.’” Library Journal

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"In this compelling study, Thierry de Duve reads Greenberg against the grain of the famous critic's critics - and sometimes against the grain of the critic himself. By reinterpreting Greenberg's interpretations of Pollock, Duchamp, and other canonical figures, de Duve establishes new theoretical co-ordinates by which to understand the uneasy complexities and importance of Greenberg's practice." - John O'Brian, editor of Clement Greenberg: The Collected Essays and Criticism. "De Duve is an expert on theoretical aesthetics and thus well suited to reassess the formalist tenets of the late American art critic's theory on art and culture.... De Duve's close readings of Greenberg... contain much of interest, and the author clearly enjoys matching wits with 'the world's best known art critic.'" - Library Journal.

About the Author:

Thierry de Duve is a Belgian art historian, critic, and curator, as well as director of studies at l'Ecole des beaux-arts, Paris. His publications in English include Kant After Duchamp and Pictorial Nominalism. Brian Holmes is a theorist, writer, and translator based in Paris.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0226175162
• ISBN 13: 9780226175164
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 158