Eyesight Alone: Clement Greenberg's Modernism and the Bureaucratization of the Senses

JOHN O'BRIAN is professor of art history at the University of British Columbia [Department of Art History, Visual Art, and Theory, 403-6333 Memorial Road, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 1Z2, Canada].

Notes

1. See Alice Goldfarb Marquis, Art Czar: The Rise and Fall of Clement Greenberg (Boston: MFA Publications, 2006); and Florence Rubenfeld, Clement Greenberg: A Life (New York: Scribner, 1999).

2. The quotations are from Clement Greenberg, The Harold Letters, 1928-1943: The Making of an American Intellectual, ed. Janice Van Horne (Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 2000), 139-40, 143, 146.

3. Both quotations are from Clement Greenberg, "Avant-Garde and Kitsch," in The Collected Essays and Criticism, ed. John O'Brian, vol. 1 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986), 8, 13.

4. Barry Schwabsky, "Modern Love," Nation, October 16, 2006, 26.

5. For example, see Greenberg's essay "Modern and Postmodern," Arts 54 (February 1980), reprinted in Clement Greenberg: Late Writings, ed. Robert C. Morgan (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003).

6. T. J. Clark, Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999); and David Joselit, "Contingency Plan," Artforum (May 1999): 31-32. See also Thierry de Duve, Clement Greenberg between the Lines, trans. Brian Holmes (Paris: Editions Dis Voir, 1996).

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