Irving Sandler's second memoir details his experiences as an art critic in New York city from the 1950s to the present.
Ms Singh has bought the characters to life on the pages…. I can highly recommend this story, it has all of the emotions to make this a must read.” — Goodreads on Christmas with Her Secret Prince
FROM 1947 TO 1951, more than a dozen Abstract Expressionists achieved "breakthroughs" to independent styles. 1 During the following years, these painters, the first generation of the New York School, received growing recognition nationally ...
“It can't be,” he said, as he took the coat out of my hands. He buried his face in it and breathed in the mildew. “Where did you get this?” “It was hidden in a closet in Cabin 5 at Dugan's.” “At Dugan's? What were you doing there?
"Sandler covers the art, artists and movements of the sixties--Painterly and Post Painterly Painting, Pop Art, New Perceptual Realism, Op Art and Kinetic Sculpture, Minimal Sculpture, Construction Sculpture, Eccentric and...
This richly illustrated book offers the first thorough look at the career of this influential artist who helped bring the revolutionary liveliness of the late 20th century to the walls and spaces of galleries and museums.
"A fine, firsthand appreciation of the accomplishments, antagonisms, foibles, and failings of the hosts that made the scene that Sandler has spent his life chronicling and celebrating." --Artforum
Chapter 2 : Nature's Forms 1. Polcari , interview by author . 2. Polcari , interview by author . 3. Quoted in Jonathan Fineberg , Art Since 1940 : Strategies of Being ( Englewood Cliffs , New Jersey : Prentice Hall , 1995 ) , 93 . 34.
The setting is downtown New York. The novel follows the careers and interactions of four artists of different generations and styles—two first generation abstract expressionists and two younger painters.
For the past four decades Alex Katz has worked diligently and brilliantly to depict in a new and individual way the human face and figure, the figure in nature, and...
Paintings and collages by the modern American artist are presented together with articles on the unique qualities of his works