Homemade Esthetics Observations on Art and Taste

"...eight essays on aesthetics from the '70s and a good deal of other material. Although the book is not exactly a last will and testament, these eight essays--which offer as obdurate, streamlined, and unsentimental a view of art-for-art's-sake as the world has ever known--do have a valedictory power....[F]rom essay to essay, Greenberg returns to this belief that all the arts are dedicated to an experience that is isolated, self-reflexive, sufficient unto itself. He emphasizes the visual arts, but he maintains that his conclusions hold for literature and music as well, and several of the examples that he lingers over come from writers."Greenberg, Clement is the author of 'Homemade Esthetics Observations on Art and Taste', published 2000 under ISBN 9780195139235 and ISBN 0195139232.