Two Ways of Avoiding Clement Greenberg: Alice Goldfarb Marquis’ “Art Czar: the Rise and Fall of Clement Greenberg” and Robert Storr’s “No Joy in Mudville: Greenberg’s Modernism Then and Now”
Max E. Katz
On July 22nd, the carcass of a lion’s mane jellyfish washed ashore a New Hampshire beach. The jellyfish’s detached tentacles still managed to sting swimmers, evacuating the beach and sending four to the emergency room. The dead thing stings.
Clement Greenberg died sixteen years ago, already a relic. But death does not deter Greenberg’s [...]