CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The papers of influential New York author and art critic Clement Greenberg measure 8.6 linear feet and date from 1937 to 1983. The bulk of the ...

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In his introductory essay to Vitamin P, a survey of contemporary painting first published by Phaidon in 2002, the poet and critic Barry Schwabsky takes pains to point out the variety of stylistic ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. On the contrary, opposition is likely to be intensified, for the discussion of the issues raised in Mr. Greenberg ...

As onetime (1943-49) art critic for the Nation, Clement Greenberg feels he still has “a certain real stake” in the magazine’s wellbeing. Recently, Greenberg decided that the weekly’s well-being was ...

The fad for fake art personas online has passed. They were soo 2010, though they lingered into 2011. Perhaps tired of the fakery and the shadowy world of anonymous critics, someone has decided to ...

The outsized reputation of formalist art critic Greenberg, sometimes called the most influential art critic of the 20th century, rests largely on a body of mid-century writings around the work of ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Yet his critical interests were by no means confined to the accomplishments of the New York School—or, for that ...

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With the birth of the dealer-critic-system in 1870s France, criticism shifted its focus from the artwork to the artist. It’s been all downhill from there. In Jean-Paul Sartre’s existentialist ...

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