How an Exclusive NYC Cult Influenced the Post War Art Scene
"I was like reborn," the art critic Clement Greenberg once remembered, "it was the most important event in my life."
The event in question was his encounter with Sullivanian therapy. His biographer, Florence Rubenfeld, once wrote that it would not overstretch the facts to say that after the late '50s, Clem's comportment in the art world can only be understood in this context. Yet despite how large Clement Greenberg looms as the most impactful U.S. critic of the 20th century, few people know this history.
A new book called The Sullivanians, Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American…
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