![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The old in the guise of the old being largely discredited today, Rosenberg concentrates on the more insidious-and more fashionable-alternative: the glitter of novelty playing about the surfaces of decay and obsolescence, sheep instinct strutting about in lone wolf’s clothing. Its central theme is self-transformation and transformation of others, and these symbolic actions are set over against the numberless accommodation formulas devised by a society which insists, inexorably, on the individual’s conformity to the status quo ante. The book falls into four main divisions: “American Painting Today,” “The Profession of Poetry,” “War of Phantoms” (pieces concerned with Marxist methods and issues, plus an excellent study of dramatic conversion patterns), “The Herd of Independent Minds” (pieces concerned with mass culture and problems raised by our managerial society). ![]()
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