Philip Guston (1913-1980) was an internationally acclaimed American artist whose response to the political and social tumult of the post-war decades resulted in a prolific artistic output.
Philip Guston: Now
Philip Guston: Now
This book takes the reader from his early social realist murals and easel paintings of the 1930s and 1940s, to the Abstract Expressionist works of the 1950s and early 1960s, and finally to the powerful new language of figurative painting, ...
"This volume introduces the diverse voices that comprise Guston's linguistic tapestry. Guston never stopped talking for too long.
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 impressive series of black-and-white lithographs that Guston made shortly before his death in 1980 incorporates, as a sort of visual autobiography, the complete repertoire of objects that marked his return to powerful pictorial ...
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 ...
This book gathers this extraordinary body of work for the first time in its entirety.00Exhibition: Hauser & Wirth, New York, USA (01.11.2016-28.01.2017) / Hauser & Wirth, London, UK (19.05.-29.07.2017).
Written by Musa Meyer—Guston's daughter and president of the Guston Foundation—this book brings Guston's life and his hugely rich and diverse output together into one succinct volume.
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 ...
Includes an essay by Philip Larratt-Smith and the text of a conversation between David Anfam and Paul Nesbitt.00Exhibition: Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, UK (25.07.-25.10.2012).
With more than 100 illustrations -- approximately 48 in full color -- this innovative series offers a fresh look at the most creative and influential artists of the postwar era....
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.
Philip Guston always had eminent artist friends.
I'd rather be settled. Because everybody wants some peace. I'd rather be able to decide, sure, painting is some paint on a flat surface, and I'm talented and I could make all kinds of doohickeys, you know, and they're nice to look at.
Neben Jackson Pollock und Willem de Kooning zählt Philip Guston (1913-1980) zu den bedeutendsten und einflussreichsten amerikanischen Künstlern des 20. Jahrhunderts. Der geheime Motor in der Entwicklung von Gustons höchst...
Based on a retrospective at the Kunstmuseum Bonn, this volume combines three works of criticism with a gallery of beautiful color plates showing the course of Guston's work from 1947-79...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.