Harold Rosenberg
Subtitle: a critic's life
By: Debra Bricker Balken
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 640
ISBN-13: 9780226740201
Subjects: Art critics; Biography
Description: "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"--
Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. never had any dreams: borough park; title: 2. in the landscape of sensibility: east houston street; title: 3. a capacity for action: poetry: a magazine of verse and the new act; title: 4. we write for the working class: the american writers' congress; title: 5. you would have to be recluse to stay out of it: art front; title: 6. american stuff; title: 7. myth and history: partisan review; title: 8. partisans and politics; title: 9. a totally different america: washington, dc; title: 10. the profession of poetry: trance above the streets; title: 11. death in the wilderness: the OWI and the american ad council; title: 12. notes on identity: VVV and view; title: 13. possibilities; title: 14. les temps modernes; title: 15. an explanation to the french of what was cooking: "the american action painters"; title: 16. guilt to the vanishing point: commentary magazine; title: 17. a triangle of allegiances: arendt and mccarthy; title: 18. the tradition of the new; title: 19. pop culture and kitsch criticism; title: 20. play acting: arshile gorky; title: 21. problems in art criticism: artforum; title: 22. location magazine and the long view; title: 23. the new yorker; title: 24. the professor of social thought.