Works from museums and essays reveal the artist's career, intentions, influences, achieve-ments. This survey focuses on Guston's series of small panels that marked his rejection of abstraction and informed his paintings from the time of his 'new' alphabet show at the Marlborough Gallery (1970) until his death in 1980. (Yale University Art Gallery)
"This volume introduces the diverse voices that comprise Guston's linguistic tapestry. Guston never stopped talking for too long.
Out of Time is the work of a brave young scholar willing and able to change the terms by which a previous generation has framed the understanding of later twentieth-century art.”—Thomas Crow, author of The Rise of the Sixties: American ...
The late work of Philip Guston has had a profound influence on painters today, but as Guston’s star has risen, it has been forgotten how scandalous these paintings, with their cartoonish imagery and almost fumbling application of paint, ...
Philip Guston (1913-1980) was one of the most independent of the painters whose work was loosely linked by the term "abstract expressionism" during the 1950s, and he baffled admirers of his lushly beautiful abstract expressionist paintings ...
Published to accompany the exhibition ?Philip Guston and The Poets? at Gallerie dell?Accademia (May ? September 2017), this monograph exposes the artist?s oeuvre to critical literary interpretation.
Drawing from the imagery of his early murals and from elements in his later drawings, ignoring the prevailing “coolness” of Minimalism and antiform abstraction, Guston invented for these late works a cast of cartoon-like characters to ...
The story of Philip Guston's life is, in many ways, a chronicle of the ideas and events that transformed American painting in this century.
Telling Stories is an original and stimulating contribution."—Clark Coolidge
He spent the first two months brooding, despairing at the reviews and the rigidity of the art world, and revisiting the great art of the past that had first moved him to paint as a young man.
This book, the most comprehensive survey of Guston's art to date, was originally published on the occasion of a major international exhibition.