The De-Definition of Art (Phoenix Book)
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ISBN: 0226726738 / Publisher: University of Chicago Press, June 1983
Analyzes the development of art during the past decade paying special attention to the works of Mondrian, Arp, Newman, and Dubuffet
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"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 sensitivity the forces that are deflecting and pressuring art in the direction of esthetic and moral nullity."—Jack Kroll, Newsweek
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