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I Paint What I Want to See
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Illuminating reflections on painting and drawing from one of the most revered artists of the twentieth century’Thank God for yellow ochre, cadmium red medium, and permanent green light’How does a painter see the world? Philip Guston, one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, spoke about art with unparalleled candour and commitment. Touching on work from across his career as well as that of his fellow artists and Renaissance heroes, this selection of his writings, talks and interviews draws together some of his most incisive reflections on iconography and abstraction, metaphysics and mysticism, and, above all, the nature of painting and drawing.’Among the most important, powerful and influential American painters of the last 100 years … he’s an art world hero’ Jerry Saltz, New York Magazine’Guston’s paintings make us think hard’ Aindrea Emelife, Guardian
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| Weight | 0.198 kg |
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| Dimensions | 2.1 × 11 × 18.1 cm |
| PubliCanadation City/Country | United Kingdom |
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| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 288 |
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| Year Published | 2022-4-28 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 0241525713 |
| About The Author | Philip Guston was born in Montreal, Quebec in 1913, the seventh child of Russian immigrants. Raised in Los Angeles and largely self-taught, he found inspiration for his early murals in the masters of the Italian Renaissance. Early acclaim as a figurative painter and years spent teaching in the mid-West were followed by a Prix de Rome in 1948-49, after which he moved permanently to New York and turned to abstraction, joining contemporaries Pollock, De Kooning, Kline and Rothko. In the mid-1960s, Guston withdrew from the New York art scene to work on his late figurative paintings in Woodstock until his death in 1980, weeks after the opening of a major retrospective. His work and writings continue to exert a powerful influence over contemporary artists, and he is widely acknowledged as one of the most important American painters of the past century. |
Philip Guston's work gathers strength with the passing of time. During his lifetime he seemed an outsider, but now the world of painting seems to have regrouped around him. This book captures the breadth and depth of his thinking, and also captures the feeling of an intensely lively era when artists like Cage, Feldman and Guston felt that making art was a branch of philosophy. I think everybody interested in the evolution of culture should read this thought-provoking and timely book |
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| Other text | Vital in grasping Guston's contribution to post-war American art and his abiding significance to contemporary painters |
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