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Article: Can I get a witness?
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- March 1, 2004
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A Sweeper-Up After Artists: A Memoir, by Irving Sandler, New York, Thames & Hudson, 2003; 384 pages, $29.95 hardcover.
If the art world were like baseball, Irving Sandler, in his late 70s, energetic and indomitable as ever, would possess the record (probably in perpetuity) for most consecutive games played. The author of the standard history of Abstract Expressionism, The Triumph of American Painting, as well as three other valuable accounts of the art that followed--The New York School, American Art of the 1960s and Art of the Postmodern era, Sandler, it seems, has missed absolutely nothing public (and few things private) relating to contemporary art in New York ...