Clement Greenberg Between the Lines

Thierry de Duve is a Belgian art historian, critic, and curator, as well as director of studies at l'Ecole des beaux-arts, Paris. His publications in English include Kant After Duchamp and Pictorial Nominalism. Brian Holmes is a theorist, writer, and translator based in Paris.

"In this compelling study, Thierry de Duve reads Greenberg against the grain of the famous critic's critics - and sometimes against the grain of the critic himself. By reinterpreting Greenberg's interpretations of Pollock, Duchamp, and other canonical figures, de Duve establishes new theoretical co-ordinates by which to understand the uneasy complexities and importance of Greenberg's practice." - John O'Brian, editor of Clement Greenberg: The Collected Essays and Criticism. "De Duve is an expert on theoretical aesthetics and thus well suited to reassess the formalist tenets of the late American art critic's theory on art and culture.... De Duve's close readings of Greenberg... contain much of interest, and the author clearly enjoys matching wits with 'the world's best known art critic.'" - Library Journal.