Barbara rose ad reinhardt biography

Barbara Rose was born in Washington, D.C., was educated at Smith College, finishing her first degree at Barnard College in 1957, and went on to do graduate work at Columbia with Meyer Schapiro and other distinguished art historians.

Barbara rose ad reinhardt biography

She was a pioneer in several fields of scholarship, ranging from Spanish masters, early 20th century American art and contemporary art criticism.

Her first book, American Art since 1900: A Critical History (1967) was published in fourteen languages.

In the 1960s and 70s her “ABC Art”, published in Art in America in October 1965, was soon recognized as a pivotal text. It explored the diverse roots of minimalism in the choreography of Merce Cunningham, the art criticism of Greenberg, the philosophy of Wittgenstein and the novels of Robbe-Grillet.

In discussing the evolution of the American artists soon to be labelled Minimalists in 1960s America, she noted both the influence of Malevich’s “search for the transcendental, universal, abs