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Reading this work in a digital format (PDF) changes the reception slightly. In a physical book, Rosenberg’s text feels like a historical artifact of the 1950s. In a PDF, dissected on a screen, the text feels immediate. His description of an "anxiety" that drives the creative act resonates with the digital age's obsession with "content" and the endless scroll of novelty. Harold Rosenberg The Tradition Of The New Pdf Version
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“The new is not a style but a permanent state of emergency.” — Harold Rosenberg (paraphrased from the title essay) In a physical book, Rosenberg’s text feels like
“The canvas was a ‘place’ for action. The action on the canvas was not a representation of an action but an action in itself. One could not look at the painting as one looked at a landscape—from a distance. One had to enter into it, follow the gestures, rehearse the drama.”