By: Sandi Slone

Sandi Slone — Sat, 31 Aug 2013 18:17:39 +0000

Thank you David Plante and artcritical for this interesting interview. It’s hard to understand how Rosalind Krauss can characterize Clem as a hawk. He certainly was not a proponent of the New Left. University Maoists,SDS,the “ultraleft,” such as the Weathermen, and the anti-intellectual streak of the counter-culture scared him and other traditional leftists like Irving Howe. But as late as two years before he died, Clem told me and my husband in the pursuant conversation about politics after he made a visit to my studio that he remained a Socialist. “What else is there?,” he said. That is the teleological context to which Rosalind Krauss refers. It is a context rooted in Clem’s early Trotskyism. And he was certainly anti-Vietnam war by the early Seventies. All the while, he held his political ground as almost all his old anti-Stalinist leftist friends in the Partisan Review crowd became neo-Cons.

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By: Sandi Slone