Modernism, abstraction and artistic quality are the recurring arguments in Clement Greenberg’s criticism. Art and Culture collects essays on figures including Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and other modern artists, alongside broader claims about avant-garde culture and artistic quality. Earlier essays such as Avant-Garde and Kitsch distinguish experimental art from mass-produced culture, while Modernist Painting argues that modern art increasingly examines the conditions specific to its own medium. Greenberg’s prose is confident, evaluative and often polemical rather than neutral art history, and many of his judgements remain contested. In discovery terms, this places the work across modernist criticism, Abstract Expressionism, twentieth-century art theory and debates about formalism, taste and the autonomy of art. Read more Less
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