Clement Greenberg, American art critic (d. 1994) was born on January 16, 1909.

January 16, 1909

Clement Greenberg, American art critic (d. 1994) was born on January 16, 1909.

Clement Greenberg, occasionally writing under the pseudonym K. Hardesh, was an American essayist known mainly as a very influential visual art critic closely associated with American Modern art of the mid-20th century and a Formalist aesthetician. He is best remembered for his association with the art movement Abstract Expressionism and the painter Jackson Pollock.