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Eyesight Alone: Clement Greenberg's Modernism and the Bureaucratization of the Senses.(Critical essay)

CAROLINE A. JONES

Eyesight Alone: Clement Greenberg's Modernism and the Bureaucratization of the Senses

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 534 pp.; 23 color ills., 126 b/w. $45.00

One of the principal themes explored in this expansive book is the hygienic reordering of the senses within modernism and American culture in the twentieth century. The change in sensibilities--the new watchwords were autonomy and purity--helped to generate an appetite for formalism, which in turn prepared the way for what Caroline Jones calls the "Greenberg effect." As conceived by Jones, the "Greenberg effect" is a dispersed phenomenon larger than the critic himself and the ...

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