Woman in Yellow has been used only as an art historical document; but. In the words of Harold Rosenberg we even have a 'tradition of the new.' Author: Harold Rosenberg Publisher: Da Capo Press ISBN: Release Date: 1994-08-22 Genre: Literary Collections Harold Rosenberg was undoubtedly the most important American art critic of the twentieth century. Proteus pcb v7 2 sp200. 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. 'You cannot hang an event on the wall, only a picture,' Mary McCarthy admonished us in her generous review of this book. One or two other friendly critics sounded related objections. In approving certain happenings in art and literature, these essays had, it seems, neglected esthetic values, a lack particularly evident in the section, 'American Painting Today.' ![]() The Action Painter, whom we had presented, may not intend, the argument ran, to produce an art object but 'to abolish art' in favor of the meaningful gesture. Painting, however, is in the 'realm' of things made, not of deeds done; and art wins against the painter by changing his 'act' back into a picture. Hence once a painting is finished, the criticism ought to tell us whether it is good or bad. In reply, I should like to point out that in dealing with new things there is a question that precedes that of good or bad. I refer to the question, 'What is it?' --the question of identity. To answer this question in such a way as to distinguish between a real novelty and a fake one is itself an evaluation, perhaps the primary one for criticism in this..
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