Tag Archives: Harold Rosenberg

the committments

Posted on July 5, 2011 by Dave

Modernism in art had the tendency to idealize form at the expense of the human and communal. What of those who resisted? Do what extent can a respect for the human experience give an aesthetic strength to resist submerging itself … Continue reading →

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No! Art: confrontations on betrayal

Posted on June 28, 2011 by Dave

It was at the expense of good manners.Its an alternate method to engage oneself with memory. The burbling graphic images resurfaced later in etchings, paintings and collages like blood clots moving through hardened arteries. Alternating between the jarring and the … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged boris lurie, dietmar kirves, Donald Kuspit, Edward S. Herman, edward s. hermann, eichmann trial, Hannah Arendt, Harold Rosenberg, Immanuel Kant, margaret bourke-white, Pablo Picasso, Raul Hilberg, sam goodman, stanley fisher, wilfred bion | Leave a comment

drawing on pre-human sources

Posted on June 3, 2011 by Dave

Its an old idea. The typical John Doe sees an abstract expressionist painting, and explains to himself that there is no justice in this world. Why should the likes of Willam de Kooning, Jackson Pollock et al. be so immortalized … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Abstract expressionism, Andres Serrano, angelina hawley-dolan, Arshile Gorky, barnett newman, Clement Greenberg, dada manifesto, Dada Movement, deborah mensah-bonsu, ellen winner, hans hoffman, Harold Rosenberg, Jackson Pollock, JMW Turner, John Canaday, John Ruskin, Joseph Mallord William Turner, lee krasner, Marcel Duchamp, Mark Rothko, Pablo Picasso, robert coates, Robert Hughes, Tristan Tzara, Wassily Kandinsky, willem de Kooning | Leave a comment

THOSE MODERN FEELINGS: ITS A MATTER OF PLUMBING

Posted on August 19, 2010 by Dave

“It must be realized that what these artists, Jean Arp, Kandinsky, Klee, Mondrian etc., were concerned with was something far greater than a problem of form and distinction between “concrete” and abstract,” figurative and non-figurative. Their goal was the center … Continue reading →