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Rereading abstract expressionism, Clement Greenberg and the Cold War

Title
Rereading abstract expressionism, Clement Greenberg and the Cold War / Daniel Neofetou.
Author
Neofetou, Daniel
Publication
  • New York, NY ; London : Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2022.
  • ©2022

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Description
viii, 227 pages; 24 cm
Summary
Since the 1970s, it has been argued that Abstract Expressionism was exhibited abroad by the post-war US establishment in an attempt to culturally match and reinforce its newfound economic and military dominance. The account of Abstract Expressionism developed by the American critic Clement Greenberg is often identified as central to these efforts. However, this book rereads Greenberg's account through Theodor Adorno and Maurice Merleau-Ponty in order to contend that Greenberg's criticism in fact testifies to how Abstract Expressionism opposes the ends to which it was deployed. With reference not only to the most famous artists of the movement, but also female artists and artists of colour whom Greenberg himself neglected, such as Joan Mitchell and Norman Lewis, it is argued that, far from reinforcing the capitalist status quo, Abstract Expressionism engages corporeal and affective elements of experience dismissed or delegitimated by capitalism, and promises a world that would do justice to them.
Subject
  • Greenberg, Clement, 1909-1994 > Criticism and interpretation
  • Greenberg, Clement, 1909-1994
  • Art criticism
  • Abstract expressionism
  • art criticism
  • Abstract Expressionist
  • Art criticism
  • Abstract expressionism
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Intro -- Half-Title -- Title -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Greenberg's Trotskyism -- 2 Figuring negation -- 3 Making things of which we know not what they are -- 4 Greenberg's Kantianism contra Greenberg's positivism -- 5 The silent world of the sensible -- 6 Denunciation and anticipation -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Copyright
ISBN
  • 9781501358388
  • 1501358383
  • 9781501358395 (canceled/invalid)
  • 9781501358401 (canceled/invalid)
OCLC
  • on1263758848
  • 1263758848
  • SCSB-14292728
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library