Harold Rosenberg

Saul Steinberg

Discusses the aesthetic orientations and creative directions of prominent contemporary artists as well as the nature and implications of the various modern movements

Creators and Situations

Art on the Edge

A biographical portrait of one of the pioneers of American abstract art. Includes forty-five illustrations, four in color.

The Man, the Time, the Idea

Arshile Gorky

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

The Anxious Object

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.

The Tradition Of The New

Essays discuss the media, surrealism, political consciousness, and the art of Jasper Johns, Willem de Kooning, Saul Steinberg, Ben Shahn, and Robert Rauschenberg

Art & Other Serious Matters

Explores the nature of contemporary art while examining the factors that separate it from commercial design

Artworks and Packages

Analyzes the development of art during the past decade paying special attention to the works of Mondrian, Arp, Newman, and Dubuffet

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