The Collected Essays and Criticism: Arrogant Purpose, 1945-1949

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Summary: Greenberg's Essays
Review: The most exciting thing about reading Clement Greenberg's essays is trying to decide how relevant is what he writes in the art world today and how relevant is his work to me as an artist. I read each essay hoping that the next one will give me yet another clue to this queston. The secret dream of what l want art to be - art that is verifiably good and bad through objective aesthetic sensibility - is the core of what Greenberg's essays are about and what makes them so seductive and so painful to read.