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The American Action Painters

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  • In Harold Rosenberg

    …published his influential essay “The American Action Painters” in Art News, a publication that would later become identified with both his views on art and his poetic literary style. In that essay he championed the idea of the artist’s canvas as “an arena in which to act,” strategically distancing…

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