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The Making of Americans
Walter Benjamin
I have no desire to disparage American art, which is a child, and therefore merits being loved and protected.
—Andre Villebeuf in Gringorie, Paris
Those who have been to the United States bring back nothing from visiting American museums but memories of Italian and French works found there.
—Lucie Mazauric in Vendredi, Paris
Critic Clement Greenberg tells the story of American avant-garde art in the years since World War II—a time when New York school painting and…
e-flux Journal
Posted: October 1, 2013
Category
Modernism, Painting
Subjects
Abstraction, Museology, Art Collecting , Exhibition Histories, USA