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Guston in Time: Remembering Philip Guston

Philip Guston; Ross Feld

Novelist Ross Feld remembers his friend, the acclaimed artist Philip Guston, in a beautiful blend of memoir, biography and art criticism interspersed with extracts from Guston's vibrant letters.Painters have needed writers from the time of Vasari. By words visual imagery is given a second vividness, and writers recast it into a descriptiveness that's infinitely portable. The figurative painter Philip Guston found such an interpreter of his art in his friend, novelist Ross Feld. Guston in Time is Feld's final appreciation of Guston and his work. Both a complex study of one of the twentieth century's greatest artists and a testament to a wonderful friendship, it is ultimately a tribute to a great character. Philip Guston lives and breathes in this book. The excerpts from his letters are brash and brilliant, and Feld's fantastic images of the man are a mosaic of his grandiosity of spirit. As Feld writes, "he was like a Zero Mostel, a supernova of personality," and here Feld has created an unforgettable portrait of a man and his art, crafted with love and genius.Philip Guston's life was, in many ways, a chronicle of twentieth century American painting. He was a muralist with the Federal Art Project in the 1930s, an abstract expressionist in the fifties and sixties, and in the last and most important decade of his life, Guston's work changed yet again. His late, figurative work--crude, bold and beautifully painted--enraged the art establishment, but helped embolden a younger generation of artists to risk a new style of painting that became known as Neo-Expressionism. He died in 1980.

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Philip Guston's Poor Richard

Philip Guston; Debra Bricker Balken

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2001

Philip Guston: One-Shot-Painting = De Un Solo Aliento

Philip Guston; Institut Valencia d'Art Modern

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Other editions: 2001

Philip Guston: A New Alphabet, the Late Transition

Philip Guston; Joanna Weber; Fogg Art Museum; Yale University Art Gallery

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Philip Guston: Tableaux/Paintings 1947-1979

Philip Guston

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Philip Guston: Peintures, 1947-1979

Philip Guston; Philip Roth; Centre Georges Pompidou; Didier Ottinger

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Philip Guston, Gemalde 1947-1979

Philip Guston; National Gallery of Canada; Stadtisches Kunstmuseum Bonn; Wurttembergischer Kunstverein; Christoph Schreier

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Philip Guston (1913-1980): Oeuvres Sur Papier, 1975-1980

Philip Guston; Didier Ottinger; Abbaye Sainte-Croix (Les Sables-d'Olonnes, France)

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Philip Guston's Poem-Pictures

Philip Guston; Debra Bricker Balken; Bill Berkson; American Federation of Arts; Addison Gallery of American Art

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Philip Guston' 1975-1980: Private and Public Battles

Philip Guston; Kim Sichel; Boston University Art Gallery; Mary Drach McInnes; Kim Sickel

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Baffling Means

Philip Guston; Clark Coolidge

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Philip Guston

Philip Guston

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. Modern Masters form a perfect reference set for home, school, or library. Each handsomely designed volume presents: - A thorough survey of the artist's life and work - Statements by the artist - An illustrated chapter on technique - Chronology - Lists of exhibitions and public collections - Annotated bibliography - Index

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Baffling Means

Philip Guston; Clark Coolidge

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The Drawings of Philip Guston

Philip Guston; Magdalena Dabrowski; Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

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Philip Guston: Paintings 1969-1980

Philip Guston; Nicholas Serota; Whitechapel Art Gallery

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