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

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

Philip Guston, Clark Coolidge (Editor), Dore Ashton (Introduction by)
$40.65
Publication Date: December 15th, 2010
Publisher:
University of California Press
ISBN:
9780520257160
Pages:
344
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Description

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.

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

“Lovingly compiled”
— Artforum

“This hefty volume is 344 pages of smart art takes by the largely self-taught painter who, with pal Jackson Pollock, got expelled from L.A.’s Manual Arts High School in 1929.”
— Christopher Knight,

"Though new to us, this necessary book has in a way always been on the shelf: some of the pieces have been widely published and cited, and certain ways Guston had of talking about art have been incorporated into the thinking of those who heard that talk and passed it on. Still, much of the material is previously unpublished, and even familiar statements and interviews contain surprises. . . . This is a book of wisdom, not only for artists but for anyone seeking to learn something from art."
— The Nation

“Until now his influence has been through his art rather than his words. This collection gathers together interviews and studio discussions and commits the artist’s words to print.
— Art Newspaper

“Guston’s voice at its effusive best.”
— Jewish Exponent

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