Barbara Rose
Barbara Rose | |
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Born | Barbara Ellen Rose June 11, 1936 Washington, D.C., U.S. |
Died | December 25, 2020 Concord, New Hampshire, U.S. | (aged 84)
Education | Barnard College Columbia University |
Occupations |
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Years active | 1963–2020 |
Spouses | Richard Du Boff
(m. 1959; div. 1960)
(m. 2009–2020)
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Children | 2 |
Barbara Ellen Rose (June 11, 1936 – December 25, 2020) was an American
Early life and education
Barbara Ellen Rose was born on June 11, 1936,
At the age of 17, Rose enrolled at Smith College, but after two years transferred to Barnard College, where she received a B.A. in 1957.[8] She completed her graduate studies at Columbia University,[5][9] studying with Meyer Schapiro, Julius S. Held, and Rudolf Wittkower,[7] and started work on a PhD, but did not complete it.[10] She was eventually awarded a PhD in history of art by Columbia in 1984.[11] The university accepted "various books by Rose, published between 1970–1983" as her dissertation.[11][3][5]
In 1961, she received a Fulbright scholarship to visit Pamplona, Spain, which sparked a lasting interest in Spanish culture and art.[5][9] The cinematographer Michael Chapman introduced Rose to many New York artists, including Carl Andre and Frank Stella (to whom she was married 1961–69),[9][3] which gave her an insight into the New York art scene during the 1960s and 1970s.[12]
Career
Rose's first work of criticism was published in 1962.
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.[20] 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.[9] Rose frequently wrote on Krasner's work, describing her as "one of the seminal forces among the Abstract Expressionists";[21] in a 1977 article entitled "Lee Krasner and the Origins of Abstract Expressionism", she argued that Krasner had been unjustly overlooked by critics.[22] Rose's books include over twenty monographs about artists;[12] many of these were also about women, including Helen Frankenthaler (1971), and she also wrote on Nancy Graves, Beverly Pepper and Niki de Saint Phalle.[23]
Rose taught art history at Sarah Lawrence College (from 1967) and was a visiting lecturer at Yale University (from 1970) and Hunter College (1987); she also taught at University of California, Irvine and University of California, San Diego, where she was Regent's Professor.[9][3]
She wrote North Star: Mark di Suvero (1977), a documentary film about the sculptor Mark di Suvero.[24][25]
"ABC Art"
In October 1965, Rose published the essay "
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.
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.[32]
She also contrasted
...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.[33]
Personal life
Rose was married four times to three men.
Rose died from breast cancer on December 25, 2020, under hospice care in Concord, New Hampshire.[6][5][17]
Honors and awards
- 1967 and 1970: College Art Association, Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinguished Art Criticism[34]
- 1972: New York, Front Page Award for best column "Artists with Convictions"[18]
- 1980: CINE Golden Eagle award for Lee Krasner: The Long View[9]
- 2010: Order of Isabella the Catholic by the Spanish government for her contributions to art history and Spanish culture[5]
Selected publications
Books authored
- 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.
- Rose, Barbara (1969). The Golden Age of Dutch Painting. New York: F.A. Praeger. OCLC 741875627.
- Rose, Barbara (1970). Claes Oldenburg. Museum of Modern Art.
- 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-garde 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.
- Rose, Barbara (1988). Autocritique: Essays on Art and Anti-Art, 1963–1987. New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. OCLC 958961360.
Books edited
- 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.
Articles
- Rose, Barbara (October 1965). "ABC Art". Art in America. 53 (5).
- Rose, Barbara (1991). "Gaston Lachaise and the Heroic Ideal," in "Gaston Lachaise, Sculpture". Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, NY.
- Rose, Barbara (February 1993). "Is it art? Orlan and the transgressive act". Art in America. 81: 2.
Curated exhibitions
- 1969: Claes Oldenburg, Museum of Modern Art (New York City)[41]
- 1979: Abstract Painting: The Eighties, Grey Art Gallery, New York University (New York City)[42]
- 1982: Joan Miró, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Houston, Texas)[43]
- 1982–1983: Fernand Léger, Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris (Paris); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Houston, Texas); Musée Rath (Geneva)[44]
- 1983: Lee Krasner, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Houston, Texas); Museum of Modern Art (New York City)[45]
- 1992: Abstract Painting: The '90s, André Emmerich Gallery (New York City)[42]
- 2016: Painting After Postmodernism, Vanderborght Building (Brussels)[46]
Filmography
- 1972: American Art in the 1960s, narrator[47][48]
- 1972: The New York School, narrator[49]
- 1977: North Star: Mark di Suvero, writer[24]
- 1988: Lee Krasner: The Long View[50]
See also
References
- ISBN 978-1-890021-07-8.
- OCLC 36528407.
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- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b c "Barbara Rose blossoms in world of art". The Washington Times. May 18, 2002.
- ^ "Class of 1957". Barnard Alumnae. Archived from the original on December 28, 2020. Retrieved December 27, 2020.
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- ^ a b Jocelyn Gibbs. "Finding aid for the Barbara Rose papers, 1940–1993 (bulk 1960–1985)". Online Archive of California. Retrieved December 29, 2020.
- ^ Dagen, Philippe (December 29, 2020). "Barbara Rose, critique et historienne d'art, est morte". Le Monde (in French). Retrieved December 29, 2020.
- ^ "The Guggenheim Museums and Foundation". The Guggenheim Museums and Foundation. Retrieved December 28, 2020.
- ^ Harrison 2001, p. 116.
- ^ Tekiner 2006, pp. 38–39.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ 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.
- ISBN 1-56947-207-6.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Levin 2011, p. 399.
- ^ Levin 2011, pp. 409–410.
- ^ Wallace Ludel (December 28, 2020). "Art historian Barbara Rose—Minimalism cheerleader and champion of women artists—has died, aged 84". The Art Newspaper. Retrieved December 29, 2020.
- ^ a b Cascone, Sarah (October 10, 2017). "Editors' Picks: 18 Things to See in New York This Week". Artnet. Archived from the original on December 28, 2020. Retrieved December 28, 2020.
- OCLC 56611375.
- ^ Strickland 1993, p. 17.
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- ^ Strickland 1993, p. 22.
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- ^ Ratcliff 1996, p. 269.
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- ^ "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.
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- ^ "FILM & TALK: American Art in the 1960s". Parrish Art Museum. Archived from the original on December 28, 2020. Retrieved December 28, 2020.
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Sources
- Harrison, Sylvia (August 27, 2001). "Barbara Rose: Pop, Pragmatism, and 'Prophetic Pragmatism'". Pop Art and the Origins of Post-Modernism. ISBN 978-0-521-79115-1.
- OCLC 641532157.
- OCLC 32236025.
- Strickland, Edward (1993). Minimalism: Origins. OCLC 45261676.
- Tekiner, Deniz (2006). "Formalist Art Criticism and the Politics of Meaning". JSTOR 29768369.