The Tradition Of The New
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What does it mean for the new to become a tradition — a paradox that Harold Rosenberg confronts head-on in this landmark collection of critical essays? First published in 1959, The Tradition of the New presents a series of penetrating essays on modern art and culture, arguing that the avant-garde's relentless pursuit of innovation had itself become a kind of orthodoxy, reshaping American painting, literature, and intellectual life in the mid-twentieth century. Rosenberg — who famously coined the term Action Painting to describe the gestural Abstract Expressionism of artists like Pollock and de Kooning — chronicles the emergence of a new artistic consciousness in which the act of creation, rather than the finished object, becomes the central drama. Written with the sharpness of a polemicist and the erudition of a cultural historian, The Tradition of the New remains one of the most provocative and influential works of American art criticism. Rosenberg's prose is muscular and combative, unafraid to challenge received wisdom about modernism, identity, and the relationship between art and politics. His essays illuminate the tensions between authenticity and conformity, between the heroic individual artist and the homogenising forces of mass culture — leaving the reader to wonder whether true novelty is ever truly possible, or whether every revolution eventually becomes the establishment it sought to overthrow.
Author: Harold Rosenberg
Format: Paperback
Genre: Essays
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
What does it mean for the new to become a tradition — a paradox that Harold Rosenberg confronts head-on in this landmark collection of critical essays? First published in 1959, The Tradition of the New presents a series of penetrating essays on modern art and culture, arguing that the avant-garde's relentless pursuit of innovation had itself become a kind of orthodoxy, reshaping American painting, literature, and intellectual life in the mid-twentieth century. Rosenberg — who famously coined the term Action Painting to describe the gestural Abstract Expressionism of artists like Pollock and de Kooning — chronicles the emergence of a new artistic consciousness in which the act of creation, rather than the finished object, becomes the central drama. Written with the sharpness of a polemicist and the erudition of a cultural historian, The Tradition of the New remains one of the most provocative and influential works of American art criticism. Rosenberg's prose is muscular and combative, unafraid to challenge received wisdom about modernism, identity, and the relationship between art and politics. His essays illuminate the tensions between authenticity and conformity, between the heroic individual artist and the homogenising forces of mass culture — leaving the reader to wonder whether true novelty is ever truly possible, or whether every revolution eventually becomes the establishment it sought to overthrow.