Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting
Robert Storr
(Author)
Description
Driven and consumed by art, Philip Guston painted and drew compulsively. 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, which he developed in the late 1960s and 1970s. Drawing on more than thirty years of his own research, the critic and curator, Robert Storr, maps Guston's entire career in one definitive volume, providing a substantial, accessible, and revealing analysis of his work. With more than 850 images, the book illustrates Guston's key works and includes many unpublished paintings and drawings. An extensive chronology, illustrated with photographs, letters, articles, publications, and other ephemera drawn from the artist's archives and other sources, contextualizes Guston's life and provides in-depth coverage of his life at home, his work in the studio, his relationship with fellow artists and his many exhibitions. Guston was able to speak about art with unrivalled passion and fluency. In celebration of this, the book features Guston's own thoughts on his drawings and his great heroes of the Italian Renaissance.
Product Details
Price
$85.00
$79.05
Publisher
Laurence King
Publish Date
September 15, 2020
Pages
348
Dimensions
13.3 X 12.2 X 1.5 inches | 7.85 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9781786274168
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Robert Storr, art critic, curator, and artist, is the former Dean of Yale School of Art and senior curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. He has been visual arts director of the Venice Biennale and has researched and written on Philip Guston for over three decades.