TY - BOOK ID - 137923175 TI - Clement Greenberg : a critic's collection AU - Wilkin, Karen AU - Guenther, Bruce PY - 2001 SN - 0691090491 9780691090498 PB - Princeton Princeton University Press DB - UniCat KW - Art, Modern KW - Art KW - Art KW - Private collections KW - Greenberg, Clement KW - Greenberg, Clement, KW - Art collections UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137923175 AB - Clement Greenberg (1909-1994) is the most renowned American art critic of the twentieth century and the first to treat New York modern artists as an independent school. In the work of Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and sculptor David Smith, Greenberg saw a vitality absent from the art of postwar Europe. His writings helped transform the bohemian colony huddled around Manhattan's grimy Eighth Street into the churning center of an international movement. Far less known is the fact that Greenberg was also a major collector; because of his insistence on anonymity when loaning pieces to museums, the scope of his private collection surprises many. Recently acquired by the Portland Art Museum, his incredible collection is now coming to the public in a multi-venue traveling exhibition. This extraordinary book illustrates, in color and for the first time, the collection's 155 works. Spanning five decades of American art, it features some of the twentieth century's finest artists. ER -