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Clement Greenberg
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American essayist and visual art critic (1909-1994)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1909
- Died
- 1994
- Works
- 25
Top works
- Arte y cultura
- Die Essenz der Moderne. Ausgewählte Essays und Kritiken.
- Henri Matisse
- Collected Essays and Criticism Vol. 2
- Collected Essays and Criticism Vol. 1
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 3
- Total plays
- 4
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,951x
- The psychological impact of quarantine and how to reduce it: rapid review of the evidence
· 2020 · cited 11,337x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,994x
- Bacterial Biofilms: A Common Cause of Persistent Infections
· 1999 · cited 9,959x
- 2018 ESC/ESH Guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension
· 2018 · cited 8,295x
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Quotes
- “Hofmann is perhaps the most difficult artist alive-difficult to grasp and to appreciate. But by the same token he is an immensely interesting, original, and rewarding one, whose troubles in clarifying his art stem in large part precisely from the fact that he has so much to say.”
- “* the dividing line between the painterly and the linear [painting] is by no means a hard and fast one.”
- “It has become apparent that art can have a startling impact without really being or saying anything startling — or new. The character itself of being startling, spectacular, or upsetting has become conventionalized, part of safe good taste.”
- “The essence of modernism lies in the use of the characteristic methods of a discipline to criticize the discipline itself, not in order to subvert it but in order to entrench it more firmly in its area of competence. Modernism used art to call attention to art. The limitations that constitute the medium of painting - the flat surface, the shape of the support, the properties of the pigment - came to be regarded as positive factors, and were acknowledged openly.”
- “Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art.”
- “The main trouble with avant-garde art and literature, from the point of view of fascists and Stalinists, is not that they are too critical, but that they are too "innocent," that it is too difficult to inject effective propaganda, that kitsch is more pliable to this end.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Clement Greenberg , ( 1909-01-16 ) January 16, 1909, New York City, U.S.
- Died
- May 7, 1994 (1994-05-07) (aged 85), New York City, U.S.
- Education
- Syracuse University ( A.B. )
- Movement
- Abstract expressionism post-painterly abstraction color field painting
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Encyclopedic overview
Clement Greenberg (/ˈɡriːnbɜːrɡ/) (January 16, 1909 – May 7, 1994), 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 mid-20th 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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