Description
Book SynopsisHarold 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.
Table 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
