Swept Up By Art

Dr. Irving Sandler (1925-2018) was an art critic and historian, Professor Emeritus of Art History at the State University of New York and contributing editor of Art in America. Dr. Sandler wrote numerous publications including four surveys of art since World War II: The Triumph of American Painting: A History of Abstract Expressionism (1970); The New York School: Painters and Sculptors of the 1950s(1978); American Art of the 1960s (1988); and Art of the Postmodern Era: From the Late 1960s to the Early 1990s (1996). Other books include: A Sweeper-Up After Artists: A Memoir (2003); From Avant-Garde to Pluralism: An On-The-Spot History (2006); and Abstract Expressionism and the American Experience (2009), as well as monographs on Al Held, Deborah Kass, Alex Katz, Philip Pearlstein and Mark di Suvero, among others. He was the former president and current board member of the American section of the International Association of Art Critics, and an honorary director of the Neuberger Museum of