The Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 2: Arrogant Purpose, 1945-1949
Brand: University of Chicago Press
Categories: Books, Arts & Photography, History & Criticism



Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.6 x 8.5 inches
ISBN-13: 978-0226306223
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0226306224
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Print length: 353 pages
Publication date: February 15, 1988
subtitle: Paperback – February 15, 1988
author: Visit Amazon's Clement Greenberg Page search results Clement Greenberg John O'Brian
review: Editorial Reviews Review With the publication of the first two volumes of Clement Greenberg's Collected Essays and Criticism, we are at last on our way to having a comprehensive edition of the most important body of art criticism produced by an American writer in this century. The two volumes now available—Perceptions and Judgments, 1939-1944 and Arrogant Purpose, 1945-1949—bring together for the first time Mr. Greenberg's critical writings from the decade in which he emerged as the most informed and articulate champion of the New York School as well as one of our most trenchant analysts of the modern cultural scene. -- Hilton Kramer ― The New Criterion From the Back Cover In these two volumes are 121 essays and reviews, contributed to Partisan Review, the Nation commentary and other journals...They have permanent value as documents of the period, and ought also to stimulate anyone who wishes to write well about art. About the Author John O’Brian is professor of art history at the University of British Colombia. Read more