The Tradition of the New

"The Tradition of the New" contains the important and pioneering essays 'The American Action Painters', 'Revolution and the Concept of Beauty', 'The Heroes of Marxist Science', 'Couch Liberalism and the Guilty Past', 'Pop Culture: Kitsch Criticism', and 'The Orgamerican Phantasy'. Mr Rosenberg brings a wide ranging and rigorous criticism to bear on these diverse subjects, arriving finally at a cogent argument for the social relevance of art.

Published 1970.

Binding of book is intact. Some ink stains on back cover and slight chipping on top of front cover. Tanning and some foxing on top edge. Some scratches visible on bottom edge of book. Slight foxing and an annotation in pencil on insides of covers. Slight foxing on certain pages.