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"As a stylist, in his descriptions of art and movements and books,
Rosenberg has no equal. . . . One is grateful for [this] essay
collection. To my mind, his piece on art criticism and the
distinction between it and art history is alone worth the price of
the book."--Corinne Robins, "New York Times Book Review "
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The Labyrinth (Hardcover, Main)
Harold Rosenberg, Nicholson Baker, Saul Steinberg
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R918
R761
Discovery Miles 7 610
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"Like the great German critic Walter Benjamin, Rosenberg is a
master of dialectics whose sense of art is continuous with his
sense of society, and (also like Benjamin) bears no taint of
compromised, out-of-work radicalism. Instead, his radicalism is
very much at work, enabling him to spot and skewer fallacies, false
logic and the camouflaged nudity that is a large part of the art
emperor's new wardrobe. [The De-definition of Art] detects with
great sensitivity the forces that are deflecting and pressuring art
in the direction of esthetic and moral nullity."--Jack Kroll,
"Newsweek"
Harold Rosenberg was undoubtedly the most important American art
critic of the twentieth century. It was he who first coined the
term "Action Painters" to refer to the American Abstract
Expressionists such as Pollock, Kline, and de Kooning. Rosenberg's
seminal writings on this movement, as well as on other artists such
as Newman and Rothko, appear in The Tradition of the New (1959),
his first and most influential book its effects on subsequent art
criticism, and the practice of art itself, are still felt today.
The essays in this book are not limited to the art world, however:
He also discusses poetry, political and cultural theory, and
popular culture. As wide-ranging, independent, and deeply probing
as the essays of Walter Benjamin, Harold Rosenberg's The Tradition
of the New is a true classic of twentieth-century criticism.
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