The Portland Art Museum acquired Greenberg's art collection, which consists primarily of gifts from artists, and organized a traveling exhibition drawn from it. 142-3, 157.

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10. Greenberg’s theories were principally criticized for being too dogmatic (especially in an environment where post-structuralist theory was making major inroads); unrelated to an artists’ work; and generally inconsistent.

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His writings in defense of contemporary abstract art, first of abstract expressionism and then of post painterly abstraction or color-field painting, were accompanied by a theory of modernism developed in the late 1930s in response to the spread of mass culture and the rise of fascism in Europe. The museum's "past exhibition" site contains a provocative selection of works from the collection. 685-6, 754.

Art Criticism of Clement Greenberg', Art-as-Politics, (University of Michigan Press: Ann Arbor, 1982), pp. A common grievance was his vague definition of “quality,” which was a concept central to his evaluation of artworks.

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140 T. J. Clark Clement Greenberg's Theory of Art The essays of 1939 and 1940 argue already for what were to become Greenberg's main preoccupations and commitments as a critic. And the arguments adduced, as the author himself admits at the end of "To- wards a Newer Laocoon," are largely historical. Eyesight Alone offers artists, art historians, philosophers, and all those interested in the arts a critical history of this generative figure and brings his work fully into dialogue with the ideas that shape contemporary critical discourse, shedding light not only on Clement Greenberg but also on the contested history of modernism itself. ADORNO Theodor APOLLINAIRE Guillaume BARTHES Roland BATAILLE Georges BENJAMIN Walter BRETON Andre CLYFFORD Still COSTA Eduardo DENIS Maurice de WYZEWA Teodor ENDELL August ESCARI Raul GABO Naum Gaudier-Brzeska Henri GAUGUIN Paul GOTTLIEB Adolph GRAHAM John GREENBERG Clement … With a subscription for just $40 a month, you have unlimited access to eight modules of theory, discussion, and suggested titles to help enrich and inform your artistic life and practice. Charles Harrison and Paul Wood, Editorial preface to 'Modernist Painting', Art in Theory 1900-1990: An Anthology of Changing Ideas, (Blackwell Publishers: London, 1992), pp. According to Clement Greenberg, who helped popularize the term, medium specificity holds that "the unique and proper area of competence" for a form of art corresponds with the ability of an artist to manipulate those features that are "unique to the nature" of a particular medium.

Later in his career, Greenberg distanced himself from certain points expressed in this essay, and although it was widely debated and subverted by younger authors, at the time when it was issued it was a radical text with several interesting propositions. See Hilton Kramer, 'Clement Greenberg

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CLEMENT GREENBERG: A CRITIC'S COLLECTION. 1994) was the most influential and controversial art critic of his time.
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