Irving Sandler: Abstract Expressionism and the American Experience: A Re-evaluation [2009] hardback SCFIC The Captive Mind

The Captive Mind

this book celebrates what remains a magnificent engineering and aesthetic achievement while providing an affectionate if slightly elegiac portrait of a London which is now gone for good

the book also features newly commissioned photography of planchettes

Also explored is the possible Bronze Age background for the myth of the Trojan War

A mountain that has haunted me my whole life

Irving Sandler: Abstract Expressionism and the American Experience: A Re-evaluation [2009] hardback SCFIC The Captive MindWhen Irving Sandler published The Triumph of American Painting in 1970, this groundbreaking study quickly became the canonical account of Abstract Expressionism. Now, nearly 40 years later, Sandler, the preeminent chronicler of postwar American art, returns to the subject with this new study. Sandler focuses on two new aims: first, to present the fresh conclusions about Abstract Expressionism that he has arrived at since 1970, and, second, to counter