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- May 23, 1994: Died:Clement Greenberg
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- May 23, 1994 Cosmic Crash
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 23
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- <p> DIED. CLEMENT GREENBERG, 85, art critic and promoter of Abstract
- Expressionism; in New York City. Almost as central to the development
- of the New York School he loved as the artists he critiqued,
- Greenberg began writing on art and literature in the late 1930s
- for small but culturally powerful publications like the Partisan
- Review and the Nation. Greenberg argued that the proper subject
- of art was art itself, from the interplay of color and form
- to the flatness of the canvas and the physical properties of
- the paint. Indeed, he was so identified with the philosophy
- that it became known as "Greenberg formalism." Its avatars were
- the Abstract Expressionists, whose work Greenberg championed:
- Helen Frankenthaler, Mark Rothko, Jules Olitski and, most famously,
- Jackson Pollock, whose rise as an artistic force mirrored Greenberg's
- as a critical power. Later movements, like Pop and Conceptual
- Art, earned Greenberg's caustic contempt in articles that largely
- blasted the work of artists of the past 30 years.
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