The De-Definition of Art

by Harold Rosenberg

Book Overview

"Like the great German critic Walter Benjamin, Rosenberg is a master of dialectics whose sense of art is continuous with his sense of society, and (also like Benjamin) bears no taint of compromised, out-of-work radicalism. Instead, his radicalism is very much at work, enabling him to spot and skewer fallacies, false logic and the camouflaged nudity that is a large part of the art emperor's new wardrobe. The De-definition of Art] detects with great...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226726738
• ISBN13: 9780226726731
• Release Date: June 1983
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 7.9"