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One is also reminded of how in art the tortoise so often overtakes the hare. Not all, but too many of the best writers, composers, and artists of our time begin to be acclaimed only when they no longer have anything to say and take to performing instead of stating. This is how they first become accessible to broad taste, which is lazy taste, and by the same token to the processes of publicity and consecration. As long as they were trammeled up in the urgency of getting things said they were too difficult, too "controversial."

Clement Greenberg

Clement Greenberg

Clement Greenberg

Born: January 16, 1909

Died: May 7, 1994 (aged 85)

Bio: Clement Greenberg, occasionally writing under the pseudonym K. Hardesh, was an American essayist known mainly as an influential visual art critic closely associated with American Modern art of the mid-20th century.

Known for:

Homemade esthetics
The Harold letters, 1928-1943
Joan Miró (1948)

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