HAROLD ROSENBERG: A CRITIC’S LIFE

Book ID/图书代码： 13560021C00068

English Summary/英文概要： Despite being one of the foremost American intellectuals of the mid-twentieth century, Harold Rosenberg (1906–1978) was utterly incapable of fitting in—and he liked it that way. Signature cane in one hand and a cigarette in the other, he cut a distinctive figure on the New York City culture scene, with his radiant dark eyes and black bushy brows. A gangly giant at six foot four, he would tower over others as he forcefully expounded on his latest obsession in an oddly high-pitched, nasal voice. And people would listen, captivated by his ideas.

With Harold Rosenberg: A Critic’s Life, Debra Bricker Balken offers the first-ever complete biography of this great and eccentric man. Although he is now known mainly for his role as an art critic at the New Yorker from 1962 to 1978, Balken weaves together a complete tapestry of Rosenberg’s life and literary production, cast against the dynamic intellectual and social ferment of his time. She explores his role in some of the most contentious cultural debates of the Cold War period, including those over the commodification of art and the erosion of individuality in favor of celebrity, demonstrated in his famous essay “The Herd of Independent Minds.” An outspoken socialist and advocate for the political agency of art, he formed deep alliances with figures such as Hannah Arendt, Saul Bellow, Paul Goodman, Mary McCarthy, Jean-Paul Sartre, Willem de Kooning, and Jackson Pollock, all of whom Balken portrays with vivid accounts from Rosenberg’s life.

Thoroughly researched and captivatingly written, this book tells in full Rosenberg’s brilliant, fiercely independent life and the five decades in which he played a leading role in US cultural, intellectual, and political history.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 尽管哈罗德•罗森伯格（1906-1978）是二十世纪中叶美国最重要的知识分子之一，但他完全无法融入其中，他也喜欢这样。他一手拿着标志性的手杖，另一只手拿着香烟，在纽约市的文化场景中塑造了一个与众不同的形象，他有明亮的黑色眼睛和浓密的黑色眉毛。他身高193厘米，是一个瘦长的巨人，当他用一种奇怪的高音、鼻音有力地阐述自己最近的痴迷时，他会凌驾于其他人之上。人们会倾听，被他的想法所吸引。

在《哈罗德•罗森伯格：评论家的一生》一书中，黛布拉•布里克•巴尔肯为这位伟大而古怪的人物提供了有史以来第一部完整的传记。虽然巴尔肯现在主要以1962年至1978年在《纽约客》担任艺术评论家而闻名，但他将罗森伯格的生活和文学创作编织成了一幅完整的挂毯，与他那个时代充满活力的知识分子和社会发酵形成鲜明对比。她探讨了他在冷战时期一些最具争议的文化辩论中所扮演的角色，包括艺术商品化和为名人而侵蚀个性的辩论，这在他的著名文章《独立思想》中得到了证明。索尔•贝娄、保罗•古德曼、玛丽•麦卡锡、让•保罗•萨特、威廉•德•库宁和杰克逊•波洛克，所有这些人都是巴尔肯用罗森伯格生活中的生动故事描绘的。

这本书经过深入研究，写得引人入胜，充分讲述了罗森伯格辉煌而独立的一生，以及他在美国文化、知识和政治史上发挥主导作用的五十年。(ZY)

Awards/获奖情况：“很好的研究。巴尔肯通过设计将罗森伯格描绘成一个局外人，并再现了影响这位20世纪30年代从土生土长的布鲁克林到波希米亚左派曼哈顿的极度独立思想家的人物、场所和知识运动。”——《出版商周刊》

“有关美国最伟大的艺术评论家哈罗德•罗森伯格的这本经过彻底研究的传记生动地捕捉到了我所认识的罗森伯格，他是一位知识分子和朋友，我对此书爱不释手。”——乔纳森•芬伯格，伊利诺伊大学香槟分校

"Well-researched. . . . Balken paints Rosenberg as an outsider by design, and recreates the people, places, and intellectual movements that influenced the fiercely independent thinker from his native Brooklyn to bohemian, leftist Manhattan in the 1930s."
― Publishers Weekly

“This thoroughly researched biography of Harold Rosenberg, America’s greatest art critic, vividly captures the Rosenberg I knew as an intellect and a friend—I couldn’t put it down.”
― Jonathan Fineberg, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

About the Author/作者介绍： 黛布拉•布里克•巴尔肯是一位独立的学者、作家和策展人，专注于美国现代主义和当代艺术。她是《马克•托比》、《光线穿梭和亚瑟•多夫》、《绘画和事物目录》的作者，《绘画和事物目录》于2021年出版。

Debra Bricker Balken is an independent scholar, writer and curator with a focus on American modernism and contemporary art. She is the author of Mark Tobey, Threading Light and Arthur Dove, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings and Things, forthcoming in 2021.

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