Art and Culture: Critical Essays
by Greenberg, Clement
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- ISBN 13
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Boston: Beacon Press, 1965. x, 278 pages; 21 cm. BP 212. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light edgewear to wraps, age toning. The most influential volume of American art criticism. Includes the landmark essay "Avant-Garde and Kitsch." CONTENTS: Culture in general. Avant-garde and kitsch; The plight of culture; Art in Paris; The later Monet; Renoir; Cezanne; Picasso at seventy-five; Collage; Georges Rouault; Braque; Marc Chagall; Master Leger; Jacques Lipchitz; Kandinsky; Soutine; The School of Paris, 1946; Contribution to a symposium; Art in general. "Primitive" painting; Abstract, representational, and so forth; The new sculpture; Partisan Review "Art chronicle", 1952; The crisis of the easel picture; Modernist sculpture, its pictorial past; Wyndham Lewis against abstract art; Byzantine parallels; On the role of nature in modernist painting; Art in the United States. Thomas Eakins; John Marin; Winslow Homer; Hans Hofmann; Milton Avery; David Smith; "American-type" painting; The late thirties in New York; Literature. T.S. Eliot: a book review; A Victorian novel; Bertolt Brecht's poetry; Kafka's Jewishness. . Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.
Synopsis
Clement Greenberg (January 16, 1909 – May 7, 1994) was the author of Juan Miro and Matisse . His essays have appeared in the New Republic, Nation, Partisan Review, Art News, New York Times and Horizon , among others.
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- Title
- Art and Culture: Critical Essays
- Author
- Greenberg, Clement
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0807066818
- ISBN 13
- 9780807066812
- Publisher
- Beacon Press
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1965
- Size
- 8vo
- Bookseller catalogs
- European / 8. Modern, 1900-1945; American / 6. Late Modern, 1945-1999; Aesthetics;
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