The Tradition Of The New - Softcover

Rosenberg, Harold

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0306805960 ISBN 13: 9780306805967

Publisher: Da Capo Press, 1994

Synopsis

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.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

There is a deep-lying struggle in the whole fabric of society; a boundless collision of the New with the Old.

About the Author:

Harold Rosenberg (1906-1978) was an art critic for the New Yorker, a professor at the University of Chicago, author, and a poet.

About this edition

• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0306805960
• ISBN 13: 9780306805967
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 285