Out of Time : Philip Guston and the Refiguration of Postwar American Art

Slifkin, Robert

ISBN 10: 0520275292 / ISBN 13: 9780520275294

Published by University of California Press, 2013

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Out of Time : Philip Guston and the Refiguration of Postwar American Art
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520275292
• ISBN 13: 9780520275294
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 2.004 pounds

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Synopsis

Focusing on the thirty-three paintings that Philip Guston exhibited at the Marlborough Gallery in 1970, this in-depth account reconsiders the history of postwar American art and the conception of figuration in modern art history. Through a myriad of cultural touchstones, including evidence from literary and musical vogues of the period, Robert Slifkin examines the role of history as both artistic medium and creative catalyst to Guston’s practice as a painter. Slifkin employs a wealth of visual examples, archival materials, and original scholarship to situate Guston’s paintings within broader artistic debates of the time, using the cultural movement of “the sixties” as its orienting foreground. This historical framework provides an interface between the notions of time in art and time in the material world. Lively and edifying, Slifkin’s comprehensive text productively complicates the prescribed traditions of postwar art history and, in turn, shifts our perception of Guston and his place in the domain of modern art.

About the Author

Robert Slifkin is Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.