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Clement Greenberg was a highly influential American formalist critic, whose responses to abstract expressionism are thought to have directly influenced the development of post-painterly abstraction. According to Greenberg, the qualities that tended to characterize successful modernist artworks included abstraction and an attention to the formal qualities of the materials. He acted as an advocate for artists such as Jackson Pollock, Joan Mitchell, Sam Francis, and Helen Frankenthaler.
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- H.H. Arnason and Elizabeth C. Mansfield, "Playing by the Rules: Sixties Abstraction," in History of Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Photography, (Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2010), 518-556.
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This note was reviewed by the curatorial intern in the fall of 2018, but not by the curator.
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- Encyclopedia Britannica~Learn more about Greenberg's life, writing, and influence.
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General Description
Clement Greenberg was a highly influential American formalist critic, whose responses to abstract expressionism are thought to have directly influenced the development of post-painterly abstraction. According to Greenberg, the qualities that tended to characterize successful modernist artworks included abstraction and an attention to the formal qualities of the materials. He acted as an advocate for artists such as Jackson Pollock, Joan Mitchell, Sam Francis, and Helen Frankenthaler.
Drawn from
- H.H. Arnason and Elizabeth C. Mansfield, "Playing by the Rules: Sixties Abstraction," in History of Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Photography, (Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2010), 518-556.
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