Harold Rosenberg - A Critic''s Life

"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"--

About the author

Debra Bricker Balken is an independent scholar, writer, and curator with a focus on American modernism and contemporary art. She is the author of Mark Tobey, Threading Light, and Arthur Dove, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings and Things.

Summary

Debra Bricker Balken offers the first ever complete biography of Harold Rosenberg’s brilliant, fiercely independent life and the five decades in which he played a leading role in US cultural, intellectual, and political history.

Product details

• Authors: Debra Bricker Balken, Balken Debra Bricker
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9780226036199
• ISBN: 978-0-226-03619-9
• No. of pages: 600
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Biography: literary, Theory of art, 20th Century, ART / Criticism & Theory, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960, Biography: writers