Consider this famous section (from the PDF scan of the 1959 edition, p. 25):
: Discusses the psychology of the intellectual and mass culture. Why It Matters Harold Rosenberg The Tradition Of The New Pdf Version
Rosenberg posits that the canvas is no longer a space to reproduce an object, but "an arena in which to act". Existentialism in Art Consider this famous section (from the PDF scan
The Tradition of the New is not a step-by-step manual on painting techniques. Instead, it is a collection of provocative essays written between the 1940s and the late 1950s, most of which originally appeared in publications like The New Yorker , Partisan Review , and ARTnews . The book’s title itself is a paradox: How can something as chaotic and rebellious as the "new" become a tradition? Rosenberg argues that modern art is caught in a cycle of continuous revolution. Each avant-garde movement destroys the previous one only to become—within a decade—the new academic standard. Thus, the "tradition of the new" is the self-consuming, self-renewing engine of modernism. Existentialism in Art The Tradition of the New