Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations

Philip Guston

ISBN 10: 0520257162 / ISBN 13: 9780520257160

Published by University of California Press, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520257162
• ISBN 13: 9780520257160
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good+

About this title

Synopsis

This is the premier collection of dialogues, talks, and writings by Philip Guston (1913–1980), one of the most intellectually adventurous and poetically gifted of modern painters. Over the course of his life, Guston’s wide reading in literature and philosophy deepened his commitment to his art―from his early Abstract Expressionist paintings to his later gritty, intense figurative works. This collection, with many pieces appearing in print for the first time, lets us hear Guston’s voice―as the artist delivers a lecture on Renaissance painting, instructs students in a classroom setting, and discusses such artists and writers as Piero della Francesca, de Chirico, Picasso, Kafka, Beckett, and Gogol.

About the Author

Clark Coolidge has published many volumes of poetry and a collaboration with Philip Guston, Baffling Means: Writings/Drawings. Dore Ashton is Professor of Art History at the Cooper Union. Her many books include A Critical Study of Philip Guston, available from UC Press.