A Complicated Marriage: My Life with Clement Greenberg

A Complicated Marriage: My Life with Clement Greenberg

by Janice Van Horne
A Complicated Marriage: My Life with Clement Greenberg

A Complicated Marriage: My Life with Clement Greenberg

by Janice Van Horne

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Overview

In 1955, Jenny Van Horne was a 21-year-old, naive Bennington College graduate on her own for the first time in New York City when she met 46–year–old Clement Greenberg who, she is told, is "the most famous, the most important, art critic in the world" and soon finds herself swept into his world and the heady company of Hans Hofmann, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, David Smith, Helen Frankenthaler, among others. Seven months later, as a new bride, Jenny and Clem spend the summer in East Hampton near Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner, and she feels even more keenly like an interloper in the inner circle of the art scene. A woman disowned by her anti–Semitic family for marrying a Jew, she would develop a deep, loving bond with Clem that would remain strong through years of an open marriage and separate residences.



Jenny embodies the pivotal changes of each passing decade as she searches for worlds of her own. She moves from the tradition of wife and mother to rebellion and experimentation; diving into psychoanalysis; the theater world of OOB and the Actors' Studio; and succeeding in business. Throughout, A Complicated Marriage is grounded in honesty and the self–deprecating humor, grace, and appealing voice of its author.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781619021570
Publisher: Catapult
Publication date: 05/14/2013
Pages: 416
Product dimensions: 8.60(w) x 5.60(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

In recent years Janice Van Horne edited two books assembled from Clement Greenberg's archive at the Getty Research Library; The Harold Letters and Homemade Esthetics, designated a New York Times book of the year. She lives in New York City, in the same apartment she and Clem moved into in 1960.

Table of Contents

Part I Our First Year

Meeting Clem 3

Married 43

East Hampton 69

Part II Artists & Wives & a Trip

Hans and Miz Hofmann 93

Barnett and Annalee Newman 103

Jack and Mabel Bush 113

Clyfford and Pat Still 119

Franz Kline 125

Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner 133

David Smith 145

Europe 1959 151

Part III Together/Separate

The Sixties 177

The Seventies 229

The Eighties 277

Part IV Our Last Years

Home Again 303

Death 335

And After 357

Index 377

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