EDITH KURZWEIL
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As this epoch draws to a close, one has
to
be consumed by curios–
ity about the future. The fear of death is not
to
be underestimated,
but I can think of no better reason for surviving than
to
see how it
all turns out, if by some miracle of human persistence, the world
should become a nicer place
to
live in-how awful not
to
know
about it.
In a darker mood, whi le I was in Europe in the 1980s, and he had to
argue about some manuscripts with a contributing editor and supervise
the last steps in the production of the magazine, he ended his letter to
me: "So you see, nothing changes. Progress is the ill usion of change and
the denial of retrogression."
In the end, William's body gave out, but true to himself, he remained
aware of everything that was going on in the world around him until the
day he died, on September
12,
2002 .
CHANGE YOUR MIND
CLement Greenberg
Late Writings
CLEMENT GREENBERG
Robert
C.
Mo rgan, Editor
The first collection from the period 1970 to 1990, includin g
five interviews, and the only comprehensive resource for
Greenberg's thought during the last third of his life.
"Offers many new, useful and enlightening nuggets of his
thought. It is the interviews which provide the most refreshing
and illuminating segment of this book."
- NYArts Magazine
"Clement Greenberg rose to become the most important art
critic the United States has produced." -Michael Kimmelman,
New York Times
$29.95 Cloth/jacket ISBN 0-8166-3938-8
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