Sanford Schwartz
Sanford Schwartz's essays and reviews have been collected in The Art Presence and Artists and Writers. (October 2008)
From the Review
October 23, 2008: Daring and Disturbing
Louise Bourgeois an exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, June 27–September 28, 2008; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, October 26, 2008– January 25, 2009; and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., February 26–May 17, 2009.
Destruction of the Father/Reconstruction of the Father: Writings and Interviews, 1923–1997 by Louise Bourgeois, edited by Marie-Laure Bernadac and Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Louise Bourgeois: Aller-Retour edited by Gerald Matt and Peter Weiermair
August 14, 2008: Questions About Kafka (letter)
July 17, 2008: Enchanted & Ominous
Peter Doig an exhibition at Tate Britain, London, February 5–April 27, 2008; the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, May 21–September 14, 2008; and the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, October 9, 2008–January 11, 2009.
May 15, 2008: The Nerve of Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo an exhibition at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, October 27, 2007–January 20, 2008; the Philadelphia Museum of Art, February 20–May 18, 2008; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, June 16–September 28, 2008.
March 6, 2008: The Nerve and the Will
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly a film directed by Julian Schnabel
Before Night Falls a film directed by Julian Schnabel
Basquiat a film directed by Julian Schnabel
C.V.J.: Nicknames of Maitre D's & Other Excerpts from Life by Julian Schnabel
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death by Jean-Dominique Bauby, translated from the French by Jeremy Leggatt
October 25, 2007: Local Hero
Forging an American Identity: The Art of William Ranney with a Catalogue of His Works by Linda Bantel and Peter H. Hassrick, with essays by Sarah E. Boehme and Mark F. Bockrath, edited by Kathleen Luhrs
September 27, 2007: Magic Show
Neo Rauch at the Met: para
Neo Rauch: para catalog of the exhibition by Gary Tinterow and Werner Spies
June 28, 2007: The Hogarth Show
Hogarth Catalog of the exhibition by Mark Hallett and Christine Riding
Hogarth, France and British Art: The Rise of the Arts inEighteenth-Century Britain by Robin Simon
April 12, 2007: A Track All His Own
Martìn Ramìrez Catalog of the exhibition by Brooke Davis Anderson, with essays by Vìctor M. Espinosa and Kristin E. Espinosa, Daniel Baumann, and Victor Zamudio-Taylor, a foreword by Maria Ann Conelli, and an introduction by Robert Storr.
March 15, 2007: The Master Builder
Orson Welles: Volume 2, Hello Americans by Simon Callow
What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?: A Portrait of an Independent Career by Joseph McBride
Citizen Welles: A Biography of Orson Welles by Frank Brady
Orson Welles: Volume 1, The Road to Xanadu by Simon Callow
This Is Orson Welles by Orson Welles and Peter Bogdanovich, edited by Jonathan Rosenbaum, with a new introduction by Peter Bogdanovich
The Magic World of Orson Welles by James Naremore
Rosebud: The Story of Orson Welles by David Thomson
September 21, 2006: The Neglected Master
Cotman in the North: Watercolours of Durham and Yorkshire by David Hill
The Life of John Sell Cotman by Sydney D. Kitson
John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842 edited by Miklos Rajnai
Romantic Landscape: The Norwich School of Painters by David Blayney Brown, Andrew Hemingway, and Anne Lyles
July 13, 2006: Ingres vs. Ingres
Ingres: 1780–1867 Catalog of the exhibition by Vincent Pomarède, Stéphane Guégan, Louis-Antoine Prat, and Éric Bertin
Ingres and His Critics by Andrew Carrington Shelton
May 25, 2006: Sickert's Theater
Degas, Sickert and Toulouse-Lautrec: London and Paris, 1870–1910 Catalog of the exhibition by Anna Gruetzner Robins and Richard Thomson
Walter Sickert: A Life by Matthew Sturgis
February 9, 2006: White Secrets
Jacob van Ruisdael: Master of Landscape Catalog of the exhibition by Seymour Slive
May 12, 2005: The Energizer
Dali Catalog of the exhibition by Dawn Ades and Michael Taylor
April 28, 2005: A World of His Own
Manny Farber: About Face
Negative Space: Manny Farber on the Movies by Manny Farber
February 10, 2005: Ladies in Satin
Gerard ter Borch Catalog of the exhibition edited by Arthur K. Wheelock Jr.
May 29, 2003: Wölfli's Empire
The Art of Adolf Wölfli: St. Adolf-Giant-Creation Catalog of the exhibition by Elka Spoerri and Daniel Baumann, with an essay by Edward M. Gomez and a foreword by Gerard C. Werkin
Madness and Art: The Life and Works of Adolf Wölfli by Walter Morgenthaler, M.D., translated from the German and with an introduction and notes by Aaron H. Esman, M.D., with Elka Spoerri
The Discovery of the Art of the Insane by John M. MacGregor
Beyond Reason: Art and Psychosis, Works from the Prinzhorn Collection by Bettina Brand-Claussen, Inge Jádi, and Caroline Douglas
May 1, 2003: The Instinct Artist
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1880–1938 Catalog of the exhibition edited by Jill Lloyd and Magdalena M. Moeller
April 10, 2003: The Genius of the Family
Édouard Vuillard Catalog of the exhibition edited by Guy Cogeval
February 13, 2003: The Tiny Grandeur of Max Beerbohm
Max Beerbohm: A Kind of a Life by N. John Hall
November 21, 2002: The Wild Card
George Catlin and His Indian Gallery Catalog of the exhibition edited by George Gurney and Therese Thau Heyman
North American Indians by George Catlin, with an introduction by Peter Matthiessen
Native Americans: A Portrait: The Art and Travels of Charles Bird King, George Catlin, and Karl Bodmer by Robert J. Moore Jr.
August 15, 2002: The Philadelphia Story
Thomas Eakins: American Realist Catalog of the exhibition organized by Darrel Sewell
April 11, 2002: The Master of the Blur
Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting Catalog of the exhibition by Robert Storr
Gerhard Richter: October 18, 1977 by Robert Storr
The Daily Practice of Painting by Gerhard Richter
January 17, 2002: The Devil and Giacometti
Alberto Giacometti Catalog of the exhibition edited by Christian Klemm, in collaboration with Carolyn Lanchner, Tobia Bezzola, and Anne Umland
November 29, 2001: To Be a Pilgrim
Gwen John: A Life by Sue Roe
May 31, 2001: Camera Work
Vermeer and the Delft School Catalog of the exhibition by Walter Liedtke, with Michiel C. Plomp and Axel Rüger.
Vermeer's Camera: Uncovering the Truth Behind the Masterpieces Philip Steadman
Vermeer: A View of Delft Anthony Bailey
March 29, 2001: Your Teeth Are Showing (letter)
February 8, 2001: Back to the Future
The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites by Elizabeth Prettejohn
June 15, 2000: Artist with a Calling
Fairfield Porter: A Life in Art by Justin Spring
Fairfield Porter: A Life in Art an exhibition at the AXA Gallery, New York, March 23-May 27, 2000
Selections from the Fairfield Porter Papers Institution, New York, March 16-July 10, 2000 an exhibition at the Archives of American Art/Smithsonian
Art in Its Own Terms: Selected Criticism, 1935-1975 (1983) by Fairfield Porter, edited and with an introduction by Rackstraw Downes
Fairfield Porter: An American Classic (1992) by John T. Spike
Fairfield Porter: The Collected Poems, with Selected Drawings (1985) edited by John Yau, by with David Kermani, with an introduction by John Ashbery
Thomas Eakins (1959) by Fairfield Porter
February 10, 2000: The Suspended Moment
Heade, Martin Johnson 1999- January 16, 2000; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., February 13-May 7, 2000; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, May 28-August 17, 2000. an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, September 29,, Catalog of the exhibition by Theodore E. Stebbins Jr., with contributions by Janet L. Comey, by Karen E. Quinn, by Jim Wright
Martin Johnson Heade: A Survey, 1840-1900 by Barbara Novak, by Timothy A. Eaton
The Kingdoms of Edward Hicks 1999-January 2, 2000; the Denver Art Museum, February 12-April 30, 2000; and the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, September 24, 2000-February 7, 2001; originally at the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, February 7-September 6, 1999. an exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, October 10,, Catalog of the exhibition by Carolyn J. Weekley, with the assistance of Laura Pass Barry
November 24, 1983: Top of the Class
Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism by John Updike
August 18, 1983: The Lovers
Man's Best Friend: Photographs and Drawings by William Wegman, with an introduction by Laurence Wieder
Wegman's World by Lisa Lyons, by Kim Levin
April 14, 1983: He Aims to Please
David Hockney Photographs by David Hockney
January 20, 1983: The Prince of Pure Feeling
An Abyss Deep Enough: Letters of Heinrich von Kleist with a Selection of Essays and Anecdotes edited and translated by Philip B Miller
Plays by Heinrich von Kleist, edited by Walter Hinderer
Books by Sanford Schwartz
Christen Kobke (1992)
Artists and Writers (1990)
Matrix of Modernism: Pound, Eliot, and Early Twentieth Century Thought (1990)
The Art Presence (1982)
Myron Stout (1980)