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Harold Rosenberg (
February 2,
1906,
New York City -
July 11,
1978, New York City) was an
American writer, educator, philosopher and
art critic. He coined the term
Action Painting in 1952 for what was later to be known as
abstract expressionism. The term was first employed in Rosenberg's essay "American Action Painters" published in the December 1952 issue of
ARTnews. The essay was reprinted in Rosenberg's book
The Tradition of the New in 1959. The title is itself ambiguous as it both refers to
American Action Painters and American
Action Painters and reveals Rosenberg's political agenda which consisted in crediting US as the center of international culture and
action painting as the most advanced of its cultural forms. This theme was already developed in a previous article "The Fall of Paris" published in
Partisan Review in 1940.
Rosenberg was born in
Brooklyn, educated at City College of New York and received a law degree from St. Lawrence College in 1927. Later, he often said he was "educated on the steps of the
New York Public Library." From 1938 to 1942 he was art editor for the American Guide Series produced by the
Works Progress Administration. Later he was deputy chief of domestic radio in the Office of War Information and a consult for the Treasury Department and the Advertising Council of America. Later, he was professor of social thought in the art department of the University of Chicago.
Rosenberg is best known for his art criticism. Beginning in the early 1960s he became art Critic for the
New Yorker magazine. His books on art theory include
The Tradition of the New (1959),
The Anxious Object (1964),
Art Work and Packages,
Art and the Actor and
The De-Definition of Art. He also wrote monographs on
Willem de Kooning,
Saul Steinberg, and
Arshile Gorky.
Rosenberg was also the subject of a painting by
Elaine de Kooning. Along with
Clement Greenberg and
Leo Steinberg, he was identified in
Tom Wolfe's 1975 book
The Painted Word as one of the three "kings of Cultureburg", so named for the enormous degree of influence their criticism exerted over the world of modern art.
Saul Bellow wrote a fictional portrait of Rosenberg in his short story "What Kind of Day Did You Have?".
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