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Harold Rosenberg

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American writer and art critic (1906–1978)

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Works
32

Top works

  • Ideology: round 3
  • The tradition of the new
  • Arshile Gorky
  • Abstract Expressionism - A Tribute to Harold Rosenberg
  • The de-definition of art

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Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
Germany
Active from
1955-03-10
germanschlager

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Quotes

  • At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather than as a space in which to reproduce, re-design, analyze or express an object, actual or imagined. What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event.
  • Belonging to a generation is one of the lowest forms of solidarity.
  • As with other modern artists, his readings provided not an organized outlook but a kind of metaphysical hum that surrounded his mental operations. His thinking was truly systematic only when it dealt with achieving the reality of the art object as a "creation out of nothing," which was a common theme in New York art after the last war and the break with the European past.
  • Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism.
  • The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art but to release himself from it, in order to replace it with his own history. However the historical pattern is drawn, it will not fit the developing sensibility of the individual.
  • Abstract art as it is conceived at present is a game bequeathed to painting and sculpture by art history. One who accepts its premises must consent to limit his imagination to a depressing casuistry regarding the formal requirements of modernism.

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