“Art has arrived at the paradox that tradition itself requires the occurrence of radical attacks on tradition.”

—  Harold Rosenberg

Source: Art on the Edge, (1975), p. 251, "What's New: Ritual Revolution"

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American writer and art critic 1906–1978

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