T J Clark and Michael Fried in Conversation About Jackson Pollock

Alternative title: Jackson Pollock: Tim Clark and Michael Fried in Conversation
Synopsis: Art historian T J Clark and art critic Michael Fried in the past occupied opposing positions. Clark was the eminent protagonist of the social history of art, structured on a Marxist approach to history which saw art as produced in a socio-economic context. Fried, on the other hand, was an arch-modernist believing art to be about itself alone, separate from social meaning. However, since those days the two have moved closer. Clark accepts the canonical greatness of Pollock’s work and Fried no longer claims that art functions only in an ‘optical way’. Differences from the past surface to a notion of crisis in Pollock’s work and Fried’s uneasiness with associating human experience with art.
Series: Art of the Twentieth Century, Course Aa318
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Year of production: 1993
Availability: Out of distribution
Notes: Combined on one tape with GREENBERG ON ART CRITICISM and GREENBERG ON POLLOCK
Previously part of course A316, Modern art: practices and debates
Subjects: Art
Keywords: art - modern art; art criticism; Pollock, Jackson (1912-1956)

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