Displacements of modernism: Greenberg in the artistic thinking of José Luis Castillejo

Abstract

This work reflects on the formalist debate of Greenbergian modernism acquired by the writer, diplomat and collector José Luis Castillejo in his work, after his stage in the Zaj group at the end of the 60s, to analyse it critically and examine its validity in the practice of the writer. The starting point of the text is the discovery of an unpublished correspondence found in public archives of Spain and the United States between the writer and the critic Clement Greenberg maintained between 1981 and 1983, a material that has not been given the attention it deserves due to its relevance to national and international historiography.