person
1906–1978·also known as Harold Rosenberg, Rosenberg
Art critic Cameron and Bob use to name the party of the new. In Dialogue 7 Cameron sets him against the idea of making as a route to stability: Rosenberg's kind of theory "celebrates the new," the break from the past. In Dialogue 37 he returns inside Tom Wolfe's The Painted Word as the critic Bob assigns to Warhol's pop era, downstream of Clement Greenberg's abstract expressionism.
Across the dialogues
07
Introduced as the theorist of the new — set opposite the Maritain–Gilson idea of making as stability
Rosenberg enters as the pole opposite Maritain and Gilson — where making yields stability, his kind of art theory "celebrates the new," the break from the past over the tradition.
"other art theoreticians like Rosenberg would be more inclined to celebrate the new."
37
Slotted into the Painted Word lineage — the critic Bob assigns to the pop era, downstream of Greenberg's abstract expressionism
In Wolfe's Painted Word genealogy Bob assigns Rosenberg the pop era — the critic who follows Clement Greenberg's abstract expressionism as the writing catches up to Warhol's pop.
"I think Rosenberg was the critic for that era."