Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations (Documents of Twentieth-Century Art) - Softcover

Guston, Philip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520257162 ISBN 13: 9780520257160

Publisher: University of California Press, 2010

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 this title

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.

From the Back Cover

This volume introduces the diverse voices that comprise Guston's linguistic tapestry. Guston never stopped talking for too long. There may have been periods of silence precipitated by existential moments of doubt, but such lapses seem anomalous when measured against the voluminous transcriptions gleaned and edited by Clark Coolidge. Coolidge has done an admirable job arranging and presenting the book's contents, entirely relevant to anyone curious about Guston, and by extension, American Art of the post-World War II period.--Douglas Dreishpoon, chief curator at Knox-Albright Gallery

From the Inside Flap

"This volume introduces the diverse voices that comprise Guston's linguistic tapestry. Guston never stopped talking for too long. There may have been periods of silence precipitated by existential moments of doubt, but such lapses seem anomalous when measured against the voluminous transcriptions gleaned and edited by Clark Coolidge. Coolidge has done an admirable job arranging and presenting the book's contents, entirely relevant to anyone curious about Guston, and by extension, American Art of the post-World War II period." Douglas Dreishpoon, chief curator at Knox-Albright Gallery

Edition details

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0520257162
• ISBN 13: 9780520257160
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 343
• Editor: Coolidge Clark