Goodbye to Tenth Street

Sandler's novel brings to life the New York art world from the death of Jackson Pollock in 1956 to the emergence of Andy Warhol in 1962. The setting is downtown New York. The novel follows the careers and interactions of four artists of different generations and styles--two first generation abstract expressionists and two younger painters. Other leading characters include an elder and younger critic, two art dealers, a curator, and a collector.

The novel portrays competition within the self and with others for artistic recognition, as well as the soul-searching suffering for one's art. Connections are forged and betrayed. Whether relationships thrive or plummet, for business, pleasure or both, makes for an exciting, tough and dramatic world. Art theory and art history are interwoven throughout this crisp and sparkling narrative, through intriguing plot twists and dialogue.

Author: Irving Sandler
Publisher: Pleasure Boat Studio
Published: 11/30/2018
Pages: 374
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.21lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.83d
ISBN: 9780912887722

About the Author
Sandler, Irving: - Dr. Irving Sandler is an art critic and historian who is Professor Emeritus of Art History at the State University of New York and a contributing editor of Art in America. Dr. Sandler is the author of 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). He has also written 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), SWEPT UP BY ART(2015), and GOODBYE TO TENTH STREET (2018). On behalf of contemporary artists, he co-founded Artists Space (1972), now the longest running non-profit exhibition space in New York. He was also instrumental in the development of the program of the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation, which provides studio space in New York to artists (now the Sharpe-Walentas Studios) and continues to serve on its advisory committee. In 2008, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award in Art Criticism from the International Association of Art Critics.