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'''Barbara Ellen Rose''' (June 11, 1936{{spnd}}December 25, 2020) was an American [[art historian]], [[art critic]], curator, college professor, and filmmaker. Rose's criticism focused on [[Visual art of the United States#Twentieth century|20th-century American art]], particularly [[Minimalism (visual arts)|minimalism]] and [[abstract expressionism]]. "[[ABC Art]]", her influential 1965 essay, outlined the main philosophical currents of minimalism.
'''Barbara Ellen Rose''' (June 11, 1936{{spnd}}December 25, 2020) was an American [[art historian]], [[art critic]], curator, college professor, and filmmaker. Rose's criticism focused on [[Visual art of the United States#Twentieth century|20th-century American art]], particularly [[Minimalism (visual arts)|minimalism]] and [[abstract expressionism]]. "[[ABC Art]]", her influential{{cn}} 1965 essay, outlined minimalist art.


==Early life and education==
==Early life and education==

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Barbara Rose
Born
Barbara Ellen Rose

(1936-06-11)June 11, 1936
Washington, D.C., U.S.
DiedDecember 25, 2020(2020-12-25) (aged 84)
Concord, New Hampshire, U.S.
Years active1963–2020
Spouse(s)
Richard Du Boff
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(m. 1959⁠–⁠1960)​

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(m. 1961; div. 1969)​

Jerry Leiber
Richard Du Boff
Children2

Barbara Ellen Rose (June 11, 1936 – December 25, 2020) was an American art historian, art critic, curator, college professor, and filmmaker. Rose's criticism focused on 20th-century American art, particularly minimalism and abstract expressionism. "ABC Art", her influential[citation needed] 1965 essay, outlined minimalist art.

Early life and education

Barbara Ellen Rose was born on June 11, 1936,[1] in a Jewish family in Washington, D.C. to Lillian Rose (née Sand) and Ben Rose.[2] Her father owned a liquor store, and her mother was a homemaker.[3][4] She graduated from Calvin Coolidge High School in the Takoma neighborhood of Washington D.C.[5]

At the age of 16, Rose enrolled at Smith College, but after a year transferred to Barnard College, where she received a B.A. in 1957.[6] She completed her graduate studies at Columbia University. During this period, she received a Fulbright scholarship to visit Pamplona, Spain, in 1961 which sparked a lasting interest in Spanish culture and art.[3][7] In 1984, she received a PhD in the history of art from Columbia University,[8] where she studied with Meyer Schapiro, Julius S. Held, and Rudolf Wittkower.[5] The subject of her thesis was 16th-century Spanish painting;[3] the university accepted "various books by Rose, published between 1970–1983" as her dissertation.[9][1]

Through cinematographer Michael Chapman, Rose was introduced to many New York artists, including Carl Andre and Frank Stella.[7]

Career

Rose started her career in the mid-1960s, writing on art criticism working with artists including formalist art historian Michael Fried.[3] From 1971 until 1977, she was an art critic for the New York magazine. In 1972, she received a Front Page Award for her article "Artists with Convictions", which described the art program for inmates of the Manhattan House of Detention for Men.[10] She later worked as an instructor at a New York City correctional facility.[11]

From 1981 until 1985, Rose was a senior curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, where she curated shows including Miró in America and Fernand Léger and the Modern Spirit: An Avant-Garde Alternative to Non-Objective Art, both in 1982.[12] In 1983, she curated the first Lee Krasner retrospective, which exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.[7] Rose frequently wrote on Krasner's work, describing him as "one of the seminal forces among the Abstract Expressionists";[13] in a 1977 article entitled "Lee Krasner and the Origins of Abstract Expressionism", she argued that he had been unjustly overlooked by critics.[14]

Rose taught at Hunter College, Sarah Lawrence College, University of California, Irvine, University of California, San Diego and Yale University.[7]

Scholarship and criticism

In October 1965, Rose published the essay "ABC Art" in Art in America, in which she describes the fundamental characteristics of what was later known as minimal art. ("ABC art" was one of Rose's suggested names for the movement; she also suggested "reductive art" and "object sculpture".[15]) "ABC Art" considers the diverse roots of minimalism in the work of Kasimir Malevich and Marcel Duchamp, as well as the choreography of Merce Cunningham, the art criticism of Clement Greenberg, the philosophy of Wittgenstein, and the novels of Alain Robbe-Grillet.[16] She regarded Ad Reinhardt as a progenitor of minimalism, and not a minimalist proper.[17] In examining the historical roots of minimal art in 1960s America, Rose drew a distinction between Malevich's "search for the transcendental, universal, absolute" and Duchamp's "blanket denial of the existence of absolute values".[18] Rose further argued in "ABC Art" that minimalist sculpture was at its best when it was inhospitable to its audience: "difficult, hostile, awkward and oversize".[19]

Rose grouped some 1960s artists as closer to Malevich, some as closer to Duchamp, and some as between the two; she argued that the work of some minimalists constituted a "synthesis" of Malevich and Duchamp.[20] Closer to Malevich were Walter Darby Bannard, Larry Zox, Robert Huot, Lyman Kipp, Richard Tuttle, Jan Evans, Ronald Bladen, Anne Truitt. Closer to Duchamp were Richard Artschwager and Andy Warhol. Between Malevich and Duchamp she placed Robert Morris, Donald Judd, Carl Andre, and Dan Flavin. Her conclusion was that minimal art is both transcendental and negative:

The art I have been talking about is obviously a negative art of denial and renunciation. Such protracted asceticism is normally the activity of contemplatives or mystics...Like the mystic, in their work these artists deny the ego and the individual personality, seeking to evoke, it would seem, the semihypnotic state of blank unconsciousness.[21]

She also contrasted minimal art with Pop Art:

...if Pop Art is the reflection of our environment, perhaps the art I have been describing is its antidote, even if it is a hard one to swallow.[22]

Rose is credited with popularizing the term Neo-Dada.[23]

Personal life

Rose was married four times to three men.[24] In 1959, she married Richard Du Boff, an economic historian;[3] the marriage ended in divorce after a year.[24] In October 1961 in London, Rose married the artist Frank Stella;[3][24] they had two children[4] and divorced in 1969. Rose then married the lyricist Jerry Leiber,[12] which ended in divorce. Rose then remarried Du Boff.[5]

Rose died on December 25, 2020 in Concord, New Hampshire, from breast cancer.[4][3][25] She was 84.

Honors and awards

Selected works and publications

Selected books

  • Rose, Barbara (1966). American Painting: The Twentieth Century. Geneva: Skira. OCLC 562069716.
  • Rose, Barbara (1967). American Art Since 1900: A Critical History. New York: F.A. Praeger. ISBN 978-0-275-43900-2. OCLC 1014107611.[27][28]
  • Rose, Barbara (1969). The Golden Age of Dutch Painting. New York: F.A. Praeger. ISBN 978-0-269-67123-4. OCLC 741875627.
  • Rose, Barbara (1970). Claes Oldenburg. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. OCLC 605363873.[29]
  • Experiments in Art and Technology (1972). Klüver, Billy; Martin, Julie; Rose, Barbara (eds.). Pavilion. New York: E.P. Dutton. OCLC 864533.
  • Reinhardt, Ad; Rose, Barbara (1975). Art As Art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-07670-9. OCLC 605712700.[30]
  • Miró, Joan; Rose, Barbara; MacCandless, Judith; MacMillan, Duncan (1982). Miró in America. Houston, TX: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. OCLC 252002405.
  • Fabre, Gladys C.; Briot, Marie-Odile; Rose, Barbara (1982). Léger et l'esprit moderne: une alternative d'avant-garde à l'art non-objectif, 1918-1931 = Léger and the modern spirit : an avant-grade alternative to non objective art, 1918-1931. Paris: Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris. OCLC 192111155.
  • Rose, Barbara (1983). Lee Krasner: A Retrospective. Houston: Museum of Fine Arts. ISBN 978-0-870-70415-4. OCLC 10527746.[31]
  • Rose, Barbara (1988). Autocritique: Essays on Art and Anti-Art, 1963–1987. New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 978-1-555-84076-1. OCLC 958961360.

Selected publications

Other writing

Selected exhibitions curated by Rose

Selected filmography

See also

References

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  2. ^ "Barbara E Rose, United States Census, 1940". FamilySearch.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h Solomon, Deborah (December 27, 2020). "Barbara Rose, Critic and Historian of Modern Art, Dies at 84". The New York Times. Vol. 170, no. 58921. p. B8. Archived from the original on December 28, 2020.
  4. ^ a b c "Barbara Rose Obituary (2020)". The Washington Post. December 27, 2020. Archived from the original on December 28, 2020. Retrieved December 27, 2020.
  5. ^ a b c "Barbara Rose blossoms in world of art". The Washington Times. May 18, 2002.
  6. ^ "Class of 1957". Barnard Alumnae. Archived from the original on December 28, 2020. Retrieved December 27, 2020.
  7. ^ a b c d e "Barbara Rose" (PDF). The Museum of Modern Art. 1983. Archived (PDF) from the original on December 28, 2020. Retrieved December 27, 2020.
  8. ^ Rose, Barbara (1987). Selected Publications on Twentienth Century Art (PhD). Columbia University. OCLC 84093102. Archived from the original on December 28, 2020. Retrieved December 27, 2020.
  9. ^ Rose, Barbara Ellen. "Selected Publications on Twentieth-Century Art." Ph.D. diss. Columbia University, 1984. ProQuest 303285133.
  10. ^ a b "Newswomen Name Winners of Awards". The New York Times. November 22, 1972. Archived from the original on December 28, 2020. Retrieved November 11, 2020.
  11. ^ Newman, Amy (2000). Challenging Art: Artforum 1962–1974. Soho Press Inc. p. 481. ISBN 1-56947-207-6.
  12. ^ a b Glueck, Grace (April 3, 1981). "Art People: The Talk of Houston". The New York Times. p. C21. Archived from the original on December 28, 2020.
  13. ^ Levin 2011, p. 399.
  14. ^ Levin 2011, pp. 409–410.
  15. ^ Strickland 1993, p. 17.
  16. ^ Smith, William S. (December 28, 2020). "More Is Less". ARTnews. Archived from the original on December 28, 2020. Retrieved December 28, 2020.
  17. ^ Strickland 1993, p. 22.
  18. ^ Motte, Warren F. (1999). Small Worlds: Minimalism in Contemporary French Literature. University of Nebraska Press. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-8032-3202-0. Archived from the original on December 28, 2020. Retrieved December 28, 2020.
  19. ^ Ratcliff 1996, p. 269.
  20. ^ "Barbara Rose (1936–2020)". Artforum. Archived from the original on December 28, 2020. Retrieved December 28, 2020.
  21. ^ Gamwell, Lynn (2016). Mathematics and Art: A Cultural History. Princeton University Press. p. 442. ISBN 978-0-691-16528-8. Archived from the original on December 28, 2020. Retrieved December 28, 2020.
  22. ^ Fink, Robert (2005). Repeating Ourselves: American Minimal Music as Cultural Practice. University of California Press. p. 73. ISBN 978-0-520-24036-0.
  23. ^ "The Guggenheim Museums and Foundation". The Guggenheim Museums and Foundation. Retrieved December 28, 2020.
  24. ^ a b c Jordan, Kathryn (as told to) (April 1, 2019). "I Was Married Four Times — Once to a Famous Artist". The Cut. New York Magazine. Archived from the original on December 28, 2020. Retrieved December 27, 2020.
  25. ^ Greenberger, Alex (December 27, 2020). "Barbara Rose, Impassioned Critic Who Reshaped Art History, Has Died at 84". ARTnews. Archived from the original on December 28, 2020. Retrieved December 27, 2020.
  26. ^ "Programs: Awards for Distinction: Frank Jewett Mather Award". College Art Association of America (CAA). Archived from the original on February 4, 2017. Retrieved December 27, 2020.
  27. ^ Sewell, David (June 1969). Art Journal. 28 (4): 448–452. doi:10.1080/00043249.1969.10793947. ISSN 0004-3249.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  28. ^ Verdier, Philippe (1969). Art Journal. 28 (4): 440. doi:10.2307/775326. JSTOR 775326.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  29. ^ Goldin, Diana; Shaw, Elizabeth (May 31, 1970). "Claes Oldenburg by Barbara Rose" (PDF). The Museum of Modern Art. Archived (PDF) from the original on December 28, 2020. Retrieved December 27, 2020.
  30. ^ Schjeldahl, Peter (February 15, 1976). "Art as Art". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on December 28, 2020. Retrieved December 28, 2020.
  31. ^ Hobbs, Robert (1987). "Lee Krasner: A Retrospective". Woman's Art Journal. 8 (1): 43. doi:10.2307/1358340. JSTOR 1358340.
  32. ^ Rose, Barbara (1970). Claes Oldenburg. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. OCLC 605363873.
  33. ^ a b Plagens, Peter (January 13, 1992). "Last-Minute Reprieve: Is abstract painting dead? Not if curator Barbara Rose can help it". Newsweek. Vol. 119, no. 2. pp. 62–63. ProQuest 1879105997.
  34. ^ Miró, Joan; Rose, Barbara; MacCandless, Judith; MacMillan, Duncan (1982). Miró in America. Houston, TX: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. OCLC 252002405.
  35. ^ Fabre, Gladys C.; Briot, Marie-Odile; Rose, Barbara (1982). Léger et l'esprit moderne: une alternative d'avant-garde à l'art non-objectif, 1918-1931 = Léger and the modern spirit : an avant-grade alternative to non objective art, 1918-1931. Paris: Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris. OCLC 192111155.
  36. ^ Rose, Barbara (1983). Lee Krasner: A Retrospective. Houston: Museum of Fine Arts. ISBN 978-0-870-70415-4. OCLC 10527746.
  37. ^ Herriman, Kat (as told to) (September 23, 2016). "Barbara Rose discusses "Painting After Postmodernism: Belgium – USA"". Artforum. Archived from the original on December 28, 2020. Retrieved December 27, 2020.
  38. ^ "FILM & TALK: American Art in the 1960s". Parrish Art Museum. Archived from the original on December 28, 2020. Retrieved December 28, 2020.
  39. ^ Arghyros, Nan (February 20, 1975). "Barbara Rose shows film at ICA". The Boston Globe. p. 20. ProQuest 655527185.
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Further reading

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