Homemade Esthetics: Observations on Art and Taste

by Clement Greenberg

Book Overview

A giant of 20th century art criticism, Clement Greenberg (1909-1994) set the terms of critical discourse from the moment he burst onto the scene with his seminal essays "Avant-Garde and Kitsch" (1939) and "Towards a Newer Laocoon" (1940). In this work, which gathers previously uncollected essays and a series of seminars delivered at Bennington College in 1971, Greenberg provides his most expansive statement of his views on taste and quality in art...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195139232
• ISBN13: 9780195139235
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 7.9"