Harold Rosenberg

Author : Debra Bricker Balken
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-06
Category : ART
ISBN : 9780226036199

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Harold Rosenberg by Debra Bricker Balken Pdf

"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"--

Author : Debra Bricker Balken
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780226740201

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Harold Rosenberg by Debra Bricker Balken Pdf

Despite being one of the foremost American intellectuals of the mid-twentieth century, Harold Rosenberg (1906–1978) was utterly incapable of fitting in—and he liked it that way. Signature cane in one hand and a cigarette in the other, he cut a distinctive figure on the New York City culture scene, with his radiant dark eyes and black bushy brows. A gangly giant at six foot four, he would tower over others as he forcefully expounded on his latest obsession in an oddly high-pitched, nasal voice. And people would listen, captivated by his ideas. With Harold Rosenberg: A Critic’s Life, Debra Bricker Balken offers the first-ever complete biography of this great and eccentric man. Although he is now known mainly for his role as an art critic at the New Yorker from 1962 to 1978, Balken weaves together a complete tapestry of Rosenberg’s life and literary production, cast against the dynamic intellectual and social ferment of his time. She explores his role in some of the most contentious cultural debates of the Cold War period, including those over the commodification of art and the erosion of individuality in favor of celebrity, demonstrated in his famous essay “The Herd of Independent Minds.” An outspoken socialist and advocate for the political agency of art, he formed deep alliances with figures such as Hannah Arendt, Saul Bellow, Paul Goodman, Mary McCarthy, Jean-Paul Sartre, Willem de Kooning, and Jackson Pollock, all of whom Balken portrays with vivid accounts from Rosenberg’s life. Thoroughly researched and captivatingly written, this book tells in full Rosenberg’s brilliant, fiercely independent life and the five decades in which he played a leading role in US cultural, intellectual, and political history.

Author : Harold Rosenberg
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1994-08-22
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0306805960

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The Tradition Of The New by Harold Rosenberg Pdf

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 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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Abstract expressionism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105032633864

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Abstract Expressionism, a Tribute to Harold Rosenberg by Anonim Pdf

Author : Harold Rosenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:14970707

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The Tradition of the New by Harold Rosenberg Pdf

Author : Barnett Newman,Harold Rosenberg
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Art, Abstract
ISBN : UOM:39076005973909

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Barnett Newman by Barnett Newman,Harold Rosenberg Pdf

"Barnett Newman was the most original and influential artist to emerge in the United States in the decade following World War II. Following his "breakthrough" in 1948 in Onement I - a small painting with a red-orange vertical stripe centered on a red-brown ground - Newman developed his art organically and intensely, expressing his themes of creation and creativity over the next two decades in an astonishing number of true masterworks." "This abundantly illustrated volume, by the late Harold Rosenberg, dean of American art critics, brings together for the first time reproductions in color of almost every one of Newman's paintings, as well as most of the drawings, watercolors, works in mixed media, sculpture, etchings, lithographs, and architecture. Rosenberg's interpretive essay emphasizes the spirituality and metaphysical quality of Newman's art, and it shows how Newman's personae as citizen, polemicist, man of impeccable taste, and metaphysician molded his artistic personality and led to the extraordinary series The Stations of the Cross and to the superb final paintings." "More than most other American artists Newman influenced the course of art in the 1960s and 1970s. His enduring achievement - perhaps the greatest monument to artistic integrity ever created in the United States - is presented chronologically in this volume, medium by medium. Newman's statement of his life and art is fully assembled here, and his radiant paintings and colors shine forth from almost every page in a blaze of transcendent light."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Harriet Janis,Rudi Blesh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Artists
ISBN : UOM:39015010988510

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De Kooning by Harriet Janis,Rudi Blesh Pdf

Author : Saul Steinberg
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781681372433

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The Labyrinth by Saul Steinberg Pdf

A seminal work by an artist whose drawings in The New Yorker, LIFE, Harper's Bazaar, and many other publications influenced an entire generation of American artists and writers. Saul Steinberg’s The Labyrinth, first published in 1960 and long out of print, is more than a simple catalog or collection of drawings— these carefully arranged pages record a brilliant, constantly evolving imagination confronting modern life. Here is Steinberg, as he put it at the time, discovering and inventing a great variety of events: "Illusion, talks, music, women, cats, dogs, birds, the cube, the crocodile, the museum, Moscow and Samarkand (winter, 1956), other Eastern countries, America, motels, baseball, horse racing, bullfights, art, frozen music, words, geometry, heroes, harpies, etc.” This edition, featuring a new introduction by Nicholson Baker, an afterword by Harold Rosenberg, and new notes on the artwork, will allow readers to discover this unique and wondrous book all over again.

Author : Hilton Kramer
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781412808347

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The Age of the Avant-Garde by Hilton Kramer Pdf

This comprehensive book collects a sizable selection of his early essays and reviews published in Artforum, Commentary, Arts Magazine, The New York Review of Books, and The Times, and thus constituted his first complete statement about art and the art world.The principal focus is on the artists and movements of the last hundred years: the Age of the Avant-Garde that begins in the nineteenth century with Realism and Impressionism. Most of the major artists of this rich period, from Monet and Degas to Jackson Pollock and Claes Oldenburg, are discussed and often drastically revaluated. A brilliant introductory essay traces the rise and fall of the avant-garde as a historical phenomenon, and examines some of the cultural problems which the collapse of the avant-garde poses for the future of art. In addition, there are chapters on art critics, museums, the relation of avant-garde art to radical politics, and on the growth of photography as a fine art.

Author : Harold Rosenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Art
ISBN : 0226726827

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The Anxious Object by Harold Rosenberg Pdf

Describes and explains the most common of the one hundred twenty-six species of snakes in the U.S. and gives general information on all snakes

Author : Harold Rosenberg,Graham Smith
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781470441852

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Degree Theory of Immersed Hypersurfaces by Harold Rosenberg,Graham Smith Pdf

The authors develop a degree theory for compact immersed hypersurfaces of prescribed $K$-curvature immersed in a compact, orientable Riemannian manifold, where $K$ is any elliptic curvature function.

Author : Harold Rosenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Art
ISBN : 0226726924

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The Case of the Baffled Radical by Harold Rosenberg Pdf

Author : Louis Menand
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780374722913

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The Free World by Louis Menand Pdf

"An engrossing and impossibly wide-ranging project . . . In The Free World, every seat is a good one." —Carlos Lozada, The Washington Post "The Free World sparkles. Fully original, beautifully written . . . One hopes Menand has a sequel in mind. The bar is set very high." —David Oshinsky, The New York Times Book Review | Editors' Choice One of The New York Times's 100 best books of 2021 | One of The Washington Post's 50 best nonfiction books of 2021 | A Mother Jones best book of 2021 In his follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Metaphysical Club, Louis Menand offers a new intellectual and cultural history of the postwar years The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas, in the broadest sense—economic and political, artistic and personal. In The Free World, the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize–winning scholar and critic Louis Menand tells the story of American culture in the pivotal years from the end of World War II to Vietnam and shows how changing economic, technological, and social forces put their mark on creations of the mind. How did elitism and an anti-totalitarian skepticism of passion and ideology give way to a new sensibility defined by freewheeling experimentation and loving the Beatles? How was the ideal of “freedom” applied to causes that ranged from anti-communism and civil rights to radical acts of self-creation via art and even crime? With the wit and insight familiar to readers of The Metaphysical Club and his New Yorker essays, Menand takes us inside Hannah Arendt’s Manhattan, the Paris of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, Merce Cunningham and John Cage’s residencies at North Carolina’s Black Mountain College, and the Memphis studio where Sam Phillips and Elvis Presley created a new music for the American teenager. He examines the post war vogue for French existentialism, structuralism and post-structuralism, the rise of abstract expressionism and pop art, Allen Ginsberg’s friendship with Lionel Trilling, James Baldwin’s transformation into a Civil Right spokesman, Susan Sontag’s challenges to the New York Intellectuals, the defeat of obscenity laws, and the rise of the New Hollywood. Stressing the rich flow of ideas across the Atlantic, he also shows how Europeans played a vital role in promoting and influencing American art and entertainment. By the end of the Vietnam era, the American government had lost the moral prestige it enjoyed at the end of the Second World War, but America’s once-despised culture had become respected and adored. With unprecedented verve and range, this book explains how that happened.

Author : Modris Eksteins
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0395937582

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Rites of Spring by Modris Eksteins Pdf

Looks at the origins and impact of World War I, discusses the premiere of Stravinsky's ballet, and analyzes public opinion of the period.

Author : D.J. Steinberg
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-06-12
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1416545565

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Book of David by D.J. Steinberg Pdf

From award-winning comedian, director, writer, and producer David Steinberg comes the totally original, utterly blasphemous, and hysterically funny memoir of a young man who emerged from a traditional Jewish childhood to become an international star -- all because, it seems, he kept God in stitches. David Steinberg was raised in Winnipeg, Canada, by parents who expected little from him. And no wonder. Instead of studying Talmud in order to become a rabbi, he chose to major in Martin and Lewis with a minor in basketball. As David imagines the story of his life (since his success otherwise makes no sense), God one day spotted him on the playground and decided that this young man with no ambition could go far with His help. Sure enough, God soon had David on network TV and Broadway, and selling out nightclubs across the country -- as well as being pursued by hot starlets. The Book of David is David Steinberg's hilarious trip down memory lane, assuming that the lane has a biblical address. This wild riff on the Old Testament is guaranteed laughter.