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Clement Greenberg was born in the Bronx in 1909, the child of Jewish immigrants from Polish Lithuania. He attended Syracuse University, spent three years sleeping late, reading, and frequenting museums, and then toured the country as a traveling salesman for a necktie business owned by his father. By 1935 he was back in New York working at a routine civil service job. One could hardly have predicted that from these inauspicious beginnings would emerge one of the century's premier cultural critics. In 1939 he wrote "Avant-Garde and Kitsch," the landmark essay that catapulted him from anonymity…
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2 editions- Hardcover · English · 1998Scribner · 336 pages · 9780684191102
- Other · English · 2004University of Minnesota Press · 9780816644353
Art criticsBiographyGreenberg, clement, 1909-1994CriticsArts, united statesNew York Times reviewed