num_pages: 256
description: "Like the great German critic Walter Benjamin, Rosenberg is a master of dialectics whose sense of art is continuous with his sense of society, and (also like Benjamin) bears no taint of compromised, out-of-work radicalism. Instead, his radicalism is very much at work, enabling him to spot and skewer fallacies, false logic and the camouflaged nudity that is a large part of the art emperor's new wardrobe. [The De-definition of Art] detects with great sensitivity the forces that are deflecting and pressuring art in the direction of esthetic and moral nullity."—Jack Kroll, Newsweek
language: English
title: The De-Definition of Art
titlecomplete: The De-Definition of Art (Phoenix Book)
genres: Art
ratings_count: 18
awards: awardedAt: 94723200000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Arts and Letters
publisher: University of Chicago Press