{"product_id":"clement-greenberg-a-life-9780816644353","title":"Clement Greenberg: A Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe only book-length biography of this controversial critic, now in paperback for the first time!\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Love him or hate him, admire him or revile him, there is no doubt that Clement Greenberg was the most influential critic of modern art in the second half of the twentieth century. His championing of abstract expressionist painters such as Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman, and David Smith put the United States on the international art map. His support for color-field painters Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland dramatically accelerated their careers. The intellectual power of his polemical essays helped bring about the midcentury shift in which New York replaced Paris as the art capital of the Western world; his aggressive personality and fierce involvement in the New York art scene triggered a backlash so potent that one critic termed it a \"patricide.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/18\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816644353\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.03lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.94h x 5.88w x 0.72d","brand":"Florence Rubenfeld","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42924933611701,"sku":"9780816644353","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_a3f62204-7bd2-4ea6-90ac-5a25e4529e7b.jpg?v=1687841673","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/clement-greenberg-a-life-9780816644353","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}