Art and Culture: Critical Essays by Greenberg, Clement - 1965

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.