![]() Interested in art, literature, philosophy, and drama, his writings ranged widely over cultural productions and thought. Like Greenberg, he too wrote for the “little magazines”. ![]() From 1942 until 1949 he served as art critic for The Nation, beginning a period of nearly thirty years during which Greenberg devoted himself almost exclusively to writing about visual art.īorn and raised in Brooklyn, Harold Rosenberg earned a law degree before gravitating towards the circles of New York bohemians and intellectuals and writing poetry. ![]() His first major essay, "Avant-garde and Kitsch," was published in Partisan Review in 1939. He emerged as a critic in the pages of the so-called “little magazines” that gave voice to New York's intellectuals. For Rosenberg, the act of painting, the painter's expressionistic encounter with the canvas, was paramount.īorn in New York, the child of first-generation Jewish immigrants from Lithuania, Clement Greenberg studied English literature but later gravitated towards writing about art. Harold Rosenberg asserted that artists in New York had made a significant breakthrough in the history of painting by ceasing to regard the canvas as a surface on which to paint a picture but instead as a surface on which to record an event, an “action” (defining Action Painting).
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