At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather than as a space in which to reproduce, re-design, analyze or express an object, actual or imagined. What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event.


"The American Action Painters" (1952) in Art News 51/8, Dec. 1952, p. 22; then published in Tradition of the New, 1959.

Harold Rosenberg Quotes

At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather than as a space in which to...

At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather than as a space in which to...

At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather than as a space in which to...

At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather than as a space in which to...