"Like the great German critic Walter Benjamin, Rosenberg is a master of dialectics whose sense of art is continuous with his sense of society, and (also like Benjamin) bears no taint of compromised, out-of-work radicalism. Instead, his radicalism is very much at work, enabling him to spot and skewer fallacies, false logic and the camouflaged nudity that is a large part of the art emperor's new wardrobe. [The De-definition of Art] detects with great sensitivity the forces that are deflecting and pressuring art in the direction of esthetic and moral nullity."—Jack Kroll, Newsweek

The De-Definition of Art

ROSENBERG, Harold

MacMillan Publishing Company

"As a stylist, in his descriptions of art and movements and books, Rosenberg has no equal. . . . One is grateful for [this] essay collection. To my mind, his piece on art criticism and the distinction between it and art history is alone worth the price of the book."â€”Corinne Robins, New York Times Book Review

Art on the edge: Creators and situations

Arts & Photography

Architecture

Macmillan

"Like the great German critic Walter Benjamin, Rosenberg is a master of dialectics whose sense of art is continuous with his sense of society, and (also like Benjamin) bears no taint of compromised, out-of-work radicalism. Instead, his radicalism is very much at work, enabling him to spot and skewer fallacies, false logic and the camouflaged nudity that is a large part of the art emperor's new wardrobe. [The De-definition of Art] detects with great sensitivity the forces that are deflecting and pressuring art in the direction of esthetic and moral nullity."—Jack Kroll, Newsweek

The De-Definition of Art (Phoenix Book)

History & Criticism

University of Chicago Press

"As a stylist, in his descriptions of art and movements and books, Rosenberg has no equal. . . . One is grateful for [this] essay collection. To my mind, his piece on art criticism and the distinction between it and art history is alone worth the price of the book."—Corinne Robins, New York Times Book Review

Art on the Edge: Creators and Situations

Discovering the Present: Three Decades in Art, Culture, and Politics

Literature & Fiction

Discovering the Present: Three Decades in Art, Culture and Politics

Univ of Chicago Pr

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

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

Artworks &[and] Packages

Photography & Video

Essays on the contemporary arts include analyses of poetry, modern American painting, character change in drama, and the culture of Paris

The Tradition of the New

From Publishers Weekly\nIn surveying the contemporary art scene, former New Yorker art critic Rosenberg notes the absence of an avant-garde, the lack of motivating ideas, the overemphasis on craft and the fact that a public inundated by mass-media images consumes art like supermarket goods. This gathering of essays, reviews and interviews from Partisan Review, ARTnews, Commentary and other sources samples the broad cultural and politcal interests of an influential critic who championed Pollock, Kline, Gorky and de Kooning. Along with several dated or slight pieces, such as articles on McLuhan, Watergate and the film Barry Lyndon, there are substantial selections as well. A review of Richard Avedon's quirky photographs turns into a full-scale meditation on the art of making portraits. A timely essay on the Statue of Liberty points out that Bartholdi's massive sculpture transforms its site and makes questions of esthetics secondary. Rosenberg, who died in 1978, was never hesitant to speak his mind on any issue. He calls American conservatism "a series of rationalizations" but also chides liberals. Other selections ponder prehistoric art, Georg Lukacs, Koestler. December 
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The Case of the Baffled Radical

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