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A Complicated Marriage: My Life With Clement Greenberg (2012. Auflage)

von Janice Van Horne

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A "winningly candid" memoir of life among art scene insiders, and a passionate and unconventional marriage to eminent art critic Clement Greenberg (Los Angeles Review of Books).   In 1955, Jenny Van Horne, a young and naïve Bennington College graduate, is on her own for the first time in New York City. There, at a party in Greenwich Village, she meets Clement Greenberg, a charming man more than twice her age. She is told he is the most famous and important art critic in the world. Though she knows nothing about art, she soon finds herself swept into Clem's world and the heady company of Hans Hofmann, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, David Smith, Helen Frankenthaler, and so many others.   Months later, Jenny and Clem are newlyweds spending summers in East Hampton near Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner. Disowned by her anti-Semitic family for marrying a Jew, Jenny abandons tradition for rebellion and experimentation in her loving, open marriage. Along the way, she dives into psychoanalysis, the bohemian world of downtown theater and the Actors' Studio, and her own successful business ventures.   In A Complicated Marriage, Jenny shares her remarkable life story with honesty, grace, and her singular perspective on the world.… (mehr)
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Titel:A Complicated Marriage: My Life With Clement Greenberg
Autoren:Janice Van Horne
Info:Counterpoint (2012), Hardcover, 352 pages
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Tags:art memoir-biography, Abstract Expressionism

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Though she was half his age, 21 year-old Jenny Van Horne met and wed famous art critic Clement Greenberg in 1955. Despite her lack of knowledge, Van Horne was soon swept into the art world of Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Hanz Hoffman and David Smith. In her memoir A Complicated Marriage, Van Horne traces the path of the couple's life together, including the trajectory of their open marriage through progressing decades.

In a time where memoirs are a dime a dozen, especially from those well-connected to the public eye, I was impressed by how beautifully written much of Van Horne's story is. Her voice is particularly striking when she discusses the pain of losing her first child just minutes after she was born.

"He leaned into me, his breath on my face, not with kindness or caring but because he thought I did not hear him, was not getting the message. But I did get the message. There would be no baby. I heard him through the sirens in my brain that were so loud my eyes squeezed shut and my heart fisted inside itself."

Despite Van Horne's talent, I found myself struggling to finish parts of the book. My main interest upon picking it up was exploring the artists in her social circle from a different perspective, but I think choosing a more focused biography of Pollock or his contemporaries might be more compelling. In my traditional marriage, without children, I felt much less of a connection to Van Horne as the book continued, which may have caused some of my mixed feelings.

Still, I think that there are quite a few people that will really enjoy reading about the lives of Janice Van Horne and Clement Greenberg, more so for Van Horne's insight into marriage, motherhood and relationships than her lens into the art world. ( )
  rivercityreading | Aug 10, 2015 |
From The Book Wheel:

When I first requested A Complicated Marriage from TLC Book Tours (thanks!), I did so because I love biographies. Although I am not well-versed in the art world, I thought that I would branch out and try something a little bit more “cultural” than my typical reads, but I was a little scared that it would be over my head. Not so! While the book is a slow read – not because it’s boring or difficult – and it took me longer to get through than I had expected, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Unlike what I had initially expected, the book is less about the art world and more about Jenny and famed art critic’s Clem Greenberg‘s relationship. Throughout her life with Clem, Jenny felt out of place in his art world. This was a bonus for the reader because she “dumbed” down the art world for the non-arty reader. This was a good thing for me because my fear of being lost in terms of who’s who wasn’t a big issue. Spanning several decades,

A Complicated Marriage follows what was, in the 1950′s, an unlikely marriage between an art critic and a book lover.

The road was bumpy from the beginning; Jenny’s family was aghast at both the age difference between her and Clem and the fact that he was Jewish. To be honest, I was downright outraged while reading the scenes that transpired because they actually happened.

The most interesting part of their marriage, however, was that it was open. I had to laugh in the beginning when Jenny mentioned that, while Clem had brought this up, she assumed she would be enough and that it wouldn’t truly be an issue. It’s not that this was all that funny in a haha way, but rather goes to the timeless myth that the right woman can change a man. A proper lady who attended Bennington, I am quite certain that an open marriage never crossed her mind when she was growing up (she certainly wasn’t expecting it when Clem brought it up). But the lovely thing about Janice’s writing is that, while she doesn’t normalize an open marriage, she writes so that the reader can almost understand their marriage.

For the full review, click here. ( )
  thebookwheel | Jun 3, 2013 |
Janice found her husband’s artist friends boring and his writing uninteresting, so I found her book boring and uninteresting. ( )
  giovannigf | Aug 26, 2012 |
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A "winningly candid" memoir of life among art scene insiders, and a passionate and unconventional marriage to eminent art critic Clement Greenberg (Los Angeles Review of Books).   In 1955, Jenny Van Horne, a young and naïve Bennington College graduate, is on her own for the first time in New York City. There, at a party in Greenwich Village, she meets Clement Greenberg, a charming man more than twice her age. She is told he is the most famous and important art critic in the world. Though she knows nothing about art, she soon finds herself swept into Clem's world and the heady company of Hans Hofmann, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, David Smith, Helen Frankenthaler, and so many others.   Months later, Jenny and Clem are newlyweds spending summers in East Hampton near Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner. Disowned by her anti-Semitic family for marrying a Jew, Jenny abandons tradition for rebellion and experimentation in her loving, open marriage. Along the way, she dives into psychoanalysis, the bohemian world of downtown theater and the Actors' Studio, and her own successful business ventures.   In A Complicated Marriage, Jenny shares her remarkable life story with honesty, grace, and her singular perspective on the world.

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