Harold Rosenberg

Yeah

... uh, critics that you associate with abstract expressionism, Harold Rosenberg and Clement Greenberg-

Mm-hmm

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... and he wanted to be a great man in some way, you know? It's just that he didn't know how yet.

So, so he, he made his way into the art world after he met Lee at a party, um, from, that a relative of Harold Rosenberg's had.

You know, such was the society in those days, that it was a, a giant web.

Occasionally, a particularly rich period in one of the arts coincides with a prolific time in the life of a major critic.

Or a major critic, Edmund Wilson, Harold Rosenberg, takes over a weekly column and uses it as the occasion for an essay.

After a time, however, even Edmund Wilson no longer wrote frequently and regularly about books.

He also wrote all his life on other subjects.

Harold Rosenberg wrote continuously on subjects other than painting.

Normally, no art can support for long the play of a major intelligence, working flat out on a quotidian basis.

No serious critic can devote himself frequently, exclusively, and indefinitely to reviewing works, most of which inevitably cannot bear, would even be misrepresented by review in depth.