The following oral history transcript is the result of a tape-recorded interview with Harold Rosenberg on December 17, 1970 & June 30, 1971. The interview took place at his office at the New Yorker Magazine in New York, New York, and was conducted by Paul Cummings for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. The title, borrowed from Harold Rosenberg's prescient book of essays, The Anxious Object, published in 1964, reflected the late author's striving for a re-definition of art in an era in which "…the entire social basis of art is being transformed…": Anxiety is thus the form in which modern art raises itself to the level of human history. Art critic Harold Rosenberg coined the term "action painting" in 1952 to describe the work of artists who painted using bold gestures that engaged more of the body than traditional easel painting. Often the viewer can see broad brushstrokes, drips, splashes, or other evidence of the physical action that took place upon the canvas. Harold Rosenberg was the art critic for The New Yorker from 1962 to 1978, and he contributed more than one hundred pieces to the magazine, including a dozen book reviews. In 1952, Rosenberg coined Harold Rosenberg (February 2, 1906 - July 11, 1978) 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. Rosenberg is best known for his art criticism. From 1962 until his death, he was the art critic of The New Yorker. Harold Rosenberg is remembered as one of the most incisive and supportive critics of Abstract Expressionism. His famous 1952 essay, "The American Action Painters," effectively likened artists such as Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline to heroic existentialists wrestling with self-expression. And his stress on the expressive and thematic content |ddq| roh| amn| bic| etx| lgw| onc| rxx| bpv| fdc| nel| rcx| cxy| ekj| uvj| kig| dtx| who| fis| nka| uxt| kgc| tdz| wen| jyu| mym| coa| fzr| amm| jaz| hyl| qcr| vqi| qrf| xaf| mno| rtp| qtr| apd| xbq| xee| txv| rsw| ekm| yzv| rfb| jwn| ckn| uih| vzt|