A giant of 20th century art criticism, Clement Greenberg (1909-1994) set the terms of critical discourse from the moment he burst onto the scene with his seminal essays "Avant-Garde and Kitsch" (1939) and "Towards a Newer Laocoon" (1940). In this work, which gathers previously uncollected essays and a series of seminars delivered at Bennington College in 1971, Greenberg provides his most expansive statement of his views on taste and quality in art. He insists that despite the attempts of modern artists to escape the jurisdiction of taste by producing an art so disjunctive that it cannot be judged, taste is inexorable. He maintains that standards of quality in art, ohe artist's responsibility to seek out the hardest demands of a medium, and the critic's responsibility to discriminate, are essential conditions for great art. He discusses the interplay of expectation and surprise in aesthetic experience, and the exalted consciousness produced by great art. Homemade Esthetics allows us to watch the critic's mind at work, defending (and at times reconsidering) his controversial and influential theories. Charles Harrison's introduction to this volume places Homemade Esthetics in the context of Greenberg's work and the evolution of 20th century criticism.

克莱门特·格林伯格（Clement Greenberg，1909—1994），20世纪下半叶美国最重要的艺术批评家，也是该时期整个西方最重要的艺术批评家之一。他的作品最简明地阐述了1930年代中期到1960年代晚期西方艺术评论的中心问题。他通常被认为是美国 “抽象表现主 义”的主要发言人，由于他的主要观点代表了现代主义艺术理论的法典化，他便成了现代主义艺术与后现代主义艺术的分水岭。著有《自制美学：关于艺术与趣味的观察》、《艺术与文化》、《格林伯格艺术批评文集》（1—4卷）等。

译者 陈毅平，暨南大学翻译学院教授。华中师范大学英语系本科（1989），天津外国语学院英语系研究生（1995），武汉大学中文系博士（2004）。曾在武汉工学院、武汉大学和汕头大学工作。多年从事英语和翻译教学，主要研究兴趣为语言学、语用学和翻译。译著主要有《海明威》（1997，第三译者）、《英语名家散文》（1998，主编、翻译）、《废墟中的大学》（2008，第二译者）、《平衡》（2015，第一译者），在《英语广场》等杂志发表译文70余篇。