Clement Greenberg , occasionally writing under the pseudonym
K. Hardesh (January 16, 1909 – May 7, 1994), was an
American essayist known mainly as an influential visual
art critic closely associated with
American Modern art of the mid-20th century. In particular, he is best remembered for his promotion of the
abstract expressionist movement and was among the first published critics to praise the work of painter
Jackson Pollock.