Harold Rosenberg
Harold Rosenberg
Harold Rosenbergwas an American writer, educator, philosopher and art critic. He coined the term Action Painting in 1952 for what was later to be known as abstract expressionism. Rosenberg is best known for his art criticism. Beginning in the early 1960s he became art Critic for the New Yorker magazine...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth2 February 1906
CountryUnited States of America
art past purpose
If being an anti-art artist is difficult, being an anti-art art historian is a hard position indeed. His doctrinal revolutionism brings forth nothing new in art but reenacts upheavals on the symbolic plane of language. It provides the consoling belief that overthrows are occurring as in the past, that barriers to creation are being surmounted, and that art is pursuing a radical purpose, even if it is only the purpose of doing away with itself.
purpose culture claims
The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.
They had enough. They wanted to enjoy their life.
breaks people
This breaks my heart. They were hardworking people and very honest.
breaks
It breaks your heart. They were hardworking and enthusiastic about life.
art artist kitsch
Kitsch is art that follows established rules in a time when all rules in art are put into question by each artist.
art greatness art-is
Greatness in art is always a by-product.
united-states social structure
In the United States, revolts tends to be directed against specific situations, rarely against the social structure as a whole.
art past self
The internationalization of art becomes a factor contributing to the estrangement of art from the artist. The sum of works of all times and places stands against him as an entity with objectives and values of its own. In turn, since becoming aware of the organized body of artworks as the obstacle to his own aesthetic self-affirmation, the artist is pushed toward anti-intellectualism and willful dismissal of the art of the past.
art mean appreciated
Only through apprehending, by means of present-day creations, how art is created, can the creations of other periods be genuinely appreciated.
art reality artist
In reality, however, an artist is a product of art
art character movement
How much the work of an artist owes to an art movement to which he belongs can never be determined exactly, if only because the movement derives its character from the individual creations of its members.
art philosophy historical
Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism.
art order done
Imitation of the art of earlier centuries, as that done by Picasso and Modigliani , is carried on not to perpetuate ancient values but to demonstrate that new aesthetic orders now prevail.