IRVING SANDLER
Abstract Expressionism and the
American Experience:
A Reevaluation
Edited by Raphael Rubinstein
In association with the School of Visual Arts
8x10, 220pp., 24 color plates
ISBN 1555953115
In 1970, Irving Sandler published
The Triumph of American Painting: A
History of Abstract Expressionism, a book that quickly became the
definitive account of the movement. Now, after a 50-year career as one
of America's most distinguished and influential critics and art
historians, Sandler reassesses his own thoughts on Abstract Expressionism in light of recent scholarship and his own observations.
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KENNETH SNELSON
Forces Made Visible
In association with Hudson Hills Press
Text by Eleanor Heartney
(
bio)
11x12, hardcover
242 b&w and color plates
French fold, on heavy art paper
Includes limited edition DVD
ISBN 1555952437
This full-rounded portrait of the man charged with having “designs on the universe” is comprised of photo essays tracking Snelson’s artistic and personal development and his working process as well as an analytical text by Eleanor Heartney (
Art in America) and pages of plates representing his sculptures, three dimensional and digital models of the atom, and panoramic photographs.
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SUZANNE McCLELLAND
Rock and Shift
88pp., hardcover
December 2008
ISBN 1889097756
Since the early 90s when she first garnered attention from critics, curators and collectors, McClelland's work has occupied the nexus in which language and abstraction commune. Using a combination of monotype, collage, and drawing, this is McClelland’s first major book, presented as an intimate ‘artist’s scrapbook’ covering seven years of work.
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RAPHAEL RUBINSTEIN
Critical Mess: Art Critics on the State of their Practice
300pp., paper
ISBN 1889097675
Rubinstein has assembled an anthology of writings by international critics on the state of art criticism. Among the contents are English critic J.J. Charlesworth's "The Dysfunction of Criticism," American art historian and critic Lane Relyea's "All Over and At Once," and Rubinstein's ow
Art in America polemic "A Quiet Crisis." Other key texts are included by prominent art critics such as Arthur C. Danto, James Elkins, Eleanor Heartney, Jerry Saltz, Peter Plagens, Nancy Princenthal, and Katy Siegel.
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ANDREW STEVOVICH
Essential Elements
196pp., hardcover
ISBN 1889097713
A monograph featuring over three decades of Stevovich’s artwork. Texts by Anita Shreve (best-selling novelist:
The Pilot's Wife,
A Wedding in December) Carol Diehl (features writer,
Art in America), John Sacret Young (television producer and writer:
China Beach,
The West Wing, and author of
The Weather Tomorrow, a novel), and Valerie Leeds (independent scholar and adjunct curator of American art at the Flint Institute of Arts, Michigan).
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