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Storr Robert - Philip Guston A Life Spent Painting - Hardcover
Storr Robert - Philip Guston A Life Spent Painting - Hardcover
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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 With more than 850 images the book illustrates Guston's key works and includes many unpublished paintings and drawings.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.
Title: Philip Guston A Life Spent Painting
Author(s): Storr Robert
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
Barcode: 9781786274168
Pages: 360 Pages, 569 Colour Illustrations, 300 Black And White; 869 Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 9/15/2020
Category: Individual Artists, Art Monographs
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 With more than 850 images the book illustrates Guston's key works and includes many unpublished paintings and drawings.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.
Title: Philip Guston A Life Spent Painting
Author(s): Storr Robert
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
Barcode: 9781786274168
Pages: 360 Pages, 569 Colour Illustrations, 300 Black And White; 869 Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 9/15/2020
Category: Individual Artists, Art Monographs
