Clement Greenberg - Lecture

Lecture date: 1976-01-17
At ARTNET
Clement Greenberg, the influential twentieth century art critic, gives a lecture at Art Net on the state of contemporary art.
Introduction by Alan Bowness.
The lengthy and lively Q & A session includes questions and comments by Richard Hamilton, RB Kitaj and many others.
NB: Infrequent sound and picture interference.
Clement Greenberg occasionally writing under the pseudonym K. Hardesh (January 16, 1909 - May 7, 1994), was an American essayist known mainly as an influential visual art critic closely associated with American Modern art of the mid-20th century. In particular, he is best remembered for his promotion of the abstract expressionist movement and was among the first published critics to praise the work of painter Jackson Pollock.
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[@windykiss]

in some parts he has a few shortcomings but his style was way better to appreciate than later movements of conceptual art so his way was the last interesting paintings in visual art field which makes him one of the greatest art critics in art history

[@marccountry]

Greenberg is a genius, who bears no resemblance to the clumsy caricature of him ignorantly scrawled by so many lesser writers.

[@camaples]

Your work will always be garbage because of your foolish reverence for this used car salesman. Vision, explanation, concept > style substance craftsmanship and talent. Right? This fool is talking about the business of art and how to fool people into buying garbage. This is why Matthew Barney and "River of Fundament" passes for "Art"
"Genius, you say." Jeezus. Lost cause.

[@JeffScher]

Fascinating. Amazing how he can pontificate, pausing only to light a cigarette.

[@ArtFluids]

I personally like Greenberg and agree with a lot of things he says

[@dermotmacmurrough4080]

The idea of "non-intellectual" discourse is very interesting. It reminds me of Freud's turn away from neurology.

[@flemishbear9658]

hahaha I love how he rams trough the feminist and beta male whining. This would almost be ILLIGAL nowadays, especially in the Art world.

[@veritas6335]

I’d like to hear more from Greenberg but atrocious recordings such as these are so technically flawed as to be almost ununderstandable. Garbled, glitched, muffled, mumbled, blurred and blipped. Pity.

[@RedbullandTwizzlers]

i will write a complaint to the CEO of atrocious recordings and let him know you demand better