Name: The Harold Letters, 1928-1943: The Making of an American Intellectual
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Author: Clement Greenberg
ISBN: 9781582432397

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The Harold Letters, 1928-1943: The Making of an American Intellectual

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Physical Book

Publisher

Counterpoint

Author

Clement Greenberg

Year

2003

Language

English

Pages

336

Format

Paperback

ISBN

1582432392

ISBN13

9781582432397

Synopsis "The Harold Letters, 1928-1943: The Making of an American Intellectual "

Candid, breathless, arrogant, ambitious--here, in his own words, is Clement Greenberg, a young man of limitless intellectual appetite on his way to becoming the twentieth century's greatest art critic . Clement Greenberg was, and remains, America's most perceptive, prescient, and influential art critic. More alive than any of his contemporaries to the genius of art in his time, it was Greenberg who, in the 1940s and '50s, charted and celebrated the rise of Abstract Expressionism. The authority of his aesthetic judgment, and the force and clarity of his arguments, went far to establish those artists whose work he championed--Pollock, de Kooning, Hans Hofmann, David Smith.Before all that, however, he was a young man burning to become an intellectual, to make what he called Important Discoveries about art and life. His confidant during these early years was Harold Lazarus, a classmate at Syracuse University and a future professor of English. From 1928, when both were nineteen, until 1943, when they went their separate ways, the two exchanged honest, funny, deeply personal letters. Greenberg's side of the correspondence, here collected by his widow, Janice Van Horne, is the intellect

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