Anyone interested in 20th-century art or simply in a good story, convincingly told, will relish Rubenfeld's biography of Clement Greenberg. Greenberg, America's most influential, controversial and sometimes reviled art critic, was foremost among those providing fascinating details for this telling biography.
Rubenfeld, an art's journalist, contributes to various art journals and was the East Coast editor for the New Art Examiner for several years. She has lectured on art at the Smithsonian and lives in Washington, D.C. "Clement Greenberg: A Life" is her first book.
If you don't already know, Clement Greenberg is the man who led the charge that conquered Paris and made New York City the art capital of the world. Greenberg, born in 1909 to Polish Jewish immigrants in the Bronx, was writing for the Partisan Review by the time he was thirty.
A few months later, he rocketed to fame with the publication of his essay, "Avant-garde and Kitsch." Along with prophesying that New York would be the new art capital in the 20th century, Greenberg was among the first to recognize and champion the first great art movement ever to emerge on American soil. "Without Clement Greenberg, American art and how the world thinks of American art would be quite different."
Rubenfeld gives art lovers a feast that satisfies the soul. Highly recommended.
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(Jones is a book critic for the Tulsa World,Tulsa,OK
and the Camden Times, Camden, NY)
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