Clement greenberg biography

American essayist and visual art critic (1909–1994)

Clement Greenberg () (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.

Early life

Clement Greenberg was born in the Bronx, New York City, in 1909.

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His parents were middle-class Jewish immigrants, and he was the eldest of their three sons. Since childhood, Greenberg sketched compulsively, until becoming a young adult, when he began to focus on literature. He attended Erasmus Hall High School, the Marquand School for Boys, and Syracuse University, graduating with an A.B.

in 1930, cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa.^[2] After college, already fluent in Yiddish and English since chi