As we have seen Modern Art does not have to be actually new; it only has to be new to somebody-to the last lady who found out about the driftwood.
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Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself.
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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.
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Birth: | 2nd February, 1906 |
Death: | 11th July, 1978 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Critic, Philosopher, Professor, Writer |
Harold Rosenberg was born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was an American writer, philosopher and art critic. He is best known for his art criticism. Beginning in the early 1960s he became art Critic for the New Yorker magazine. He studied at City College of New York. He received a law degree from St. Lawrence College in 1927. He was professor of social thought in the art department of the University of Chicago. He wrote several books include: The tradition of the new, The anxious object, Artworks and Packages, Act and the actor, The De-Definition of Art, Art on the edge, and Arshile Gorky.
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