The Harold Letters 1928-1943: The Making of an American Intellectual

Unmarked text. Some edge wear on dust jacket. Remainder mark on edge. 310p. Bibliographic notes. Appendix. Fifteen-year correspondence between Harold Lazarus and Clement Greenberg.

Book includes Greenberg's side of the correspondence and a glimpse into the mind of the most important art critic of his time. Section of photographs. Edited by Janice van Horne.

From Publisher:

Clement Greenberg was, and remains, America's most perceptive, prescient, and influential art critic. More alive than any of his contemporaries to the genius of art in his time, it was Greenberg who, in the 1940s and '50s, charted and celebrated the rise of Abstract Expressionism. The authority of his aesthetic judgment, and the force and clarity of his arguments, went far to establish those artists whose work he championed--Pollock, de Kooning, Hans Hofmann, David Smith. Before all that, however, he was a young man burning to become an intellectual, to make what he called "Important Discoveries" about art and life. His confidant during these early years was Harold Lazarus, a classmate at Syracuse University and a future professor of English. From 1928, when both were nineteen, until 1943, when they went their separate ways, the two exchanged honest, funny, deeply personal letters. Greenberg's side of the correspondence, here collected by his widow, Janice Van Horne, is the intellectual memoir Greenberg never wrote, the chronicle of a great tastemaker forming his own taste among the social, political, and cultural turbulence of the early twentieth century.

Product Info

ISBN: 1582430683

ISBN-13: 9781582430683

Publisher: Counterpoint Press

Year: 2000

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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