ABSTRACT
There was a time when Mr. Clement Greenberg's articles on the current art scene appeared at weekly or monthly intervals and thus played an active role in forming the tastes and ideas that lay behind a good deal of contemporary painting and sculpture. He has gradually discontinued such an active critical program. Art and Culture contains thirty-seven essays, many of them generously revised, and is less a history of its author's opinions than a catalogue of his present views. In Mr. Greenberg's criticism, the impersonal process of history appears in the guise of an inner artistic logic, which has its own immutable laws of development and to which works of art must conform if they are not to end up on the historical ash heap. Cubism submits more completely to the historical-formalist view of art than any other modern development. Its morphology is the one most susceptible to being turned into a historical system.
