Art and Culture : Critical Essays

"Clement Greenberg is, internationally, the best-known American art critic popularly considered to be the man who put American vanguard painting and sculpture on the world map. . . . An important book for everyone interested in modern painting and sculpture."-- The New York Times Culture - Art In Paris - Abstract, Representational Art - New Sculpture - Modernist Sculpture - Byzantine Parallels - Modernist Painting - Art In The United States - Literature. Avant-garde And Kitsch -- The Plight Of Culture -- The Later Monet -- Renoir -- Cézanne -- Picasso At Seventy-five -- Collage -- Georges Rouault -- Braque -- Marc Chagall -- Master Léger -- Jacques Lipchitz -- Kandinsky -- Soutine -- The School Of Paris : 1946 -- Contribution To A Symposium -- 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 -- Thomas Eakins -- John Marin -- Winslow Homer -- Hans Hofmann -- Milton Avery -- David Smith -- American-type Painting -- The Late Thirties In New York -- T.s. Eliot : A Book Review -- A Victorian Novel -- Bertolt Brecht's Poetry -- Kafka's Jewishness. Clement Greenberg. Includes Index. A collection of essays by critic Clement Greenberg on painting and sculpture of the late nineteenth / early twentieth century European art, and American art of the first half of the twentieth century. 'This book should be read by anyone who is interested in modern painting and is willing to look at its spectrum through the vision of a tough-minded, rightfully opinionated critic.' -Washington Post