Clement Greenberg | |
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Born | Clement Greenberg January 16, 1909 New York City, U.S. |
Died | May 7, 1994 New York City, U.S. | (aged 85)
Education | Syracuse University (AB) |
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Clement Greenberg (/ˈɡriːnbɜːrɡ/) (January 16, 1909 – May 7, 1994),[1] occasionally writing under the pseudonym K. Hardesh, was an American essayist known mainly as an art critic closely associated with American modern art of the mid-20th century and a formalist aesthetician. He is best remembered for his association with the art movement abstract expressionism and the painter Jackson Pollock.