Balls and Strikes
Charles Reeve: Clement Greenberg, 5 April 2007
Art Czar: The Rise and Fall of Clement Greenberg
by Alice Goldfarb Marquis.
Lund Humphries, 321 pp., £25, April 2006,0 85331 940 5 Show More
by Alice Goldfarb Marquis.
Lund Humphries, 321 pp., £25, April 2006,
“... up’; Clyfford Still never left the minor league; Marcel Duchamp was a joker (not in a good way); Morris Louis painted as brilliantly as Raphael. In a 1959 essay, ‘The Case for Abstract Art’, he answered his critics by drawing on Kant to argue that taste is objective because art takes its viewer outside history. A ‘mere glance’ at the picture ... ”