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A SWEEPER-UP AFTER ARTISTS “A tale told with humor, passion and grace.” —Art in America
Frank O’Hara called him, in a memorable poem,
“the balayeur des aristes,” the sweeper-up after
artists. He has been a friend or acquaintance of virtually
every important American artist of the postwar
period, and his art criticism and books constitute the
first and most comprehensive critical and historical
account of this extraordinary period.
In the early 1950s, Irving Sandler, then a graduate
student in American history, was awestruck by his
first sight of Franz Kline’s painting Chief at MoMA.
Graduate school gave way to being “New York
schooled.”We see abstract expressionism give way to
the new approach of Rauschenberg and Johns, and
see that in turn succeeded by the pop and minimalist
artists of the 1960s—Warhol and Lichtenstein, Stella
and Judd. At every turn, there was Irving Sandler,
intimately conversant with the art and the artists.
Irving Sandler is a board member of the
International Art Critics Association and the chairman
of the Artists Advisory Committee of the
Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation. ISBN 978-0-500-28776-5 · 61/4" x 91/4"
· 34 illustrations · 382 pages · ART |
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