Philip Guston: Roma

Text(s) by Musa McKim, Dore Ashton, Michael Semff, graphic design by Büro Sieveking, ed. Peter Benson Miller

ISBN 10: 3775726322 / ISBN 13: 9783775726320

Published by Hatje Cantz, Stuttgart, 2011

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Z : 224 pp., 112 ills. hardcover
- Once celebrated as a leading member of the New York School, Philip Guston (1913 1980) is now even better known for his influential, late figurative paintings. This publication reunites paintings from the Roma series, completed during the artist s residency at the American Academy in Rome in 1970 71 and which testifies to his dialogue with Italian art and culture. Inspired since his youth by masters of the Italian Renaissance, Guston s lifelong admiration for Italy continued with his love of Giorgio de Chirico, Italian films in particular those by Federico Fellini Roman ruins, antique sculptural fragments, Italian gardens, and the country s landscape and people. Diary entries recount intellectual exchanges at the American Academy; pilgrimages to Venice, Arezzo, Sicily, and Orvieto; and Guston s observations of the vibrant international cultural community in Rome.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1615909366840

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Philip Guston: Roma
• Publisher: Hatje Cantz, Stuttgart
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3775726322
• ISBN 13: 9783775726320
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1. Auflage
• Condition: Sehr gut
• Dust Jacket Condition: Sehr gut
• Dimensions: 22W x 28H x 0D centimeters 22 centimeters width by 28 centimeters height by 0 centimeters depth
• Seller catalogs:
  • Drawing
  • Monographie
  • Painting

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Synopsis

Since Philip Guston's death in 1980, his late figurative paintings and drawings have steadily reaped the acclaim they deserve--acclaim that was largely denied them during Guston's lifetime (Hilton Kramer infamously reviewed Guston as a "mandarin pretending to be a stumblebum" in a damning 1970 New York Times article). This volume reunites a selection of paintings from the Roma series, completed during Guston's residency at the American Academy in Rome in 1970-71. From early in his career, Guston had taken inspiration from Italian art, and his 1973 painting "Pantheon" features a list of Italian painters: de Chirico, Masaccio, Piero della Francesca, Giotto and Tiepolo. Italian cinema (especially Fellini) and classical sculpture were also dear to his heart. The Roma works consolidate this dialogue with Italian art and culture. Diary entries published alongside the reproductions recount exchanges at the American Academy, pilgrimages to Venice, Arezzo, Sicily and Orvieto, and observations of the international cultural community in Rome.