Description: Thanks to his unsurpassed eye and his fearless willingness to take a stand, Clement Greenberg (1909-1994) became one of the giants of 20th-century art criticism -- a writer who set the terms of critical discourse from the moment he burst onto the scene with his seminal essays Avant Garde and Kitsch (1939) and Towards a Newer Laocoon (1940). In this work, which gathers previously uncollected essays and a series of seminars delivered at Bennington in 1971, Greenberg provides his most expansive statement of his views on taste and quality in art, arguing for an esthetic that fees in the face of current art world fashions. Greenberg insists -- despite the attempts from Marcel Duchamp onwards to escape the jurisdiction of taste by producing an art so disjunctive that it cannot be judged -- that taste is inexorable.

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