Vol. 40 No. 1 1973 - page 159

HAROLD ROSENBERG
The De-definition of Art
Anatole Broyard,
The New York Times:
"Though it is one of the wittiest books
of the year, it is also much more than that ... a perspective ... an affirmation."
Cultural Information Service:
"... the best
America~
guide through the
labyrinth of contemporary art."
Douglas Davis,
The New York Times Book Review:
"... sustains his own
dialogue with the reader .. . with the same force that propelled Newman's
brush and Pollock's strokes. The man who created the action painter has
become the action critic."
Jack Kroll,
Newsweek:
"... the critic for the 'outsider'-the intelligent reader
.. . Rosenberg is a master of dialectics whose sense of art is continuous with
his sense of society . . . a powerful thinker . . ."
Lewis
L.
Lloyd,
The New York Times:
"Harold Rosenberg.
for the artist that everyone in this country should be forced
with first-year math. "
. makes a case
to learn along
Anne Ogden,
House Beautiful:
"For what's going on in the art world today
and what it means: Harold Rosenberg's
The De-definition of Art."
Sanford Schwartz,
The Nation:
"... will tell future generations what these
movements were after."
Times Literary Supplement
(London): "A new book by Harold Rosenberg is
worth waiting for . He . .. has no superiors. in the English-speaking world, for
the fluency and brilliance of his writing on contemporary art."
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With 54 illustrations
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