A sweeper-up After Artists

Stumbling upon a vocation; The art world of the 1950s; My Pantheon: Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Philip Guston, Mark Rothko, Ad Reindhart, David Smith; Art criticism: Apprentice years; My pals in the 1950s: Alex Katz, Philip Pearlstein, Al Held, Mark di Suvero; Art criticism: critics at war; The new academy: John Mitchell, Raymond Parker, Grace Hartigan; Post-gesture painting: out of the 1950s: Robert Rauschenberg; Jasper Johns, John Cage, Marcel Duchamp; Into the 1960s: Frank Stella, Barnett Newman, Robert Smithson, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichestein; The trauma of Vietnam and ist aftermath; The sweeper-up after artists.