Harold Rosenberg : a critic's life / Debra Bricker Balken.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Balken, Debra Bricker, author.

Contributor:

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rosenberg, Harold, 1906-1978.

Rosenberg, Harold.

Art critics--United States--Biography.

Art critics.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xv, 640 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2021.

Summary:

"The biography recounts Rosenberg's full story for the first time. Art critic for The New Yorker from 1962 until 1978, Rosenberg, together with Clement Greenberg, radically reshaped the interpretation of art in the post-World-War-II period by promoting and examining abstract expression. But Rosenberg was also a social and literary critic-writing about art was just one aspect of his work. Harold Rosenberg: A Critic's Life weaves together Rosenberg's life and literary production, cast against the dynamic intellectual and social ferment of his time. Rosenberg's mid-century linking of the New York School with the art establishment, together with his observations on the commodification of the artwork and the evisceration of the "self" in favor of celebrity (especially in his often-cited essay "The Herd of Independent Minds") make this book especially topical"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Never had any dreams: borough park

2. In the landscape of sensibility: east houston street

3. A capacity for action: poetry: a magazine of verse and the new act

4. We write for the working class: the american writers' congress

5. You would have to be recluse to stay out of it: art front

6. American stuff

7. Myth and history: partisan review

8. Partisans and politics

9. A totally different america: Washington, dc

10. The profession of poetry: trance above the streets

11. Death in the wilderness: the OWI and the american ad council

12. Notes on identity: VVV and view

13. Possibilities

14. Les temps modernes

15. An explanation to the french of what was cooking: "the american action painters"

16. Guilt to the vanishing point: commentary magazine

17. A triangle of allegiances: arendt and mccarthy

18. The tradition of the new

19. Pop culture and kitsch criticism

20. Play acting: arshilegorky

21. Problems in art criticism: artforum

22. Location magazine and the long view

23. The new yorker

24. The professor of social thought.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 587-606) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780226036199

0226036197

OCLC:

1240773914