The Tradition of the New

By Harold Rosenberg

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226726843
• ISBN13: 9780226726847
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 285 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.

Customer Reviews

excellent criticism

I was surprised at how well these essays held up, and what a terrific writer Rosenberg was. Very witty as well, and not nearly as portentous as his better-remembered rival Clement Greenberg.

A book of advised reference!

In the last Century, the art has ran vertiginously from vanguard in vanguard, in frank rupture not only with the tradition, but also with every movement immediately anterior. Rosenberg scrutinizes the different tendencies and besides, makes a itemized analysis about the form and expression around several issues; painting, literature, social behavior, conventionalisms, in a mesmerizing account of the most representative expressions and protagonists. A fundamental book, that, despite its years, maintains actual interest.