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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IRVING SANDLER: THE INTERVIEW
Join Irving Sandler and Raphael Rubinstein
for a stimulating discussion of
Sandler's highly anticipated new book.
Introduction by Alex Katz.
Book-signing to follow.
THURSDAY, APRIL 16 6:30PM
School of Visual Arts, NYC
Visual Arts Theater, 333 West 23rd St.
Free
Info :: 212-592-2010 or
www.sva.edu
IRVING SANDLER: BOOK SIGNING
Bernard Jacobsen Gallery, London, England
Thursday, June 25, 2009 - 6 PM
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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MICHAEL GLIER COMING FALL 2009
Along A Long Line
In association with Hudson Hills Press
Interview by Carol Diehl; essay by Lisa Corrin
11x12, 200pp., 240 color plates & photographs
hardcover, cloth binding
Michael Glier travels along the 70th line of longitude to four locations: the Arctic, Ecuador, the Caribbean, and New York City. Each painting, accompanied by photographs and diary-like observations, reveals the artist’s impressions of each habitat while addressing the urgent issue of man’s connection to and place in nature.
Forty of the
Longitude paintings will be exhibited at the
Gerald Peters Gallery in Santa Fé this spring and in their New York gallery this September. Entitled “Along a Long Line,” the exhibition runs from May 15-July 4, 2009 in Santa Fé and September 10-October 9, 2009 in NYC.
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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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ELEANOR HEARTNEY
Defending Complexity: Art, Politics, and the New World Order
300pp., paper
ISBN 1889097667
A collection of essays on art and politics from a variety of standpoints, among them, the failures and successes of art committed to social change, the intersections of art and religion, globalism and economics, the dangersposed by paranoia and censorship to our vision of free expression and the new urgency of these issues in a post 9/11 world.
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