Tradition of the New

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

List of contents

* The Tradition of the New American Painting Today * Parable of American Painting * The American Action Painters * Extremist Art: Community Criticism * Virtual Revolution * Everyman a Professional The Profession of Poetry * French Silence and American Poetry * The Profession of Poetry and M. Maritain * Oh This is the Creature that Does Not Exist * The Comedy of the Divine The War of Phantoms * Character Change and the Drama * The Resurrected Romans * The Heroes of Marxist Science * Politics as Dancing * The Fall of Paris * Couch Liberalism and the Guilty Past

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.

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Harold Rosenberg, Rosenberg Harold
• Publisher: Perseus Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 22.08.1994
• EAN: 9780306805967
• ISBN: 978-0-306-80596-7
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Cultural Studies, Theory of art, The arts: general issues, ART / History / General, ART / Criticism & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, ART / American / General, Expressionism, History of Art, United States of America, USA