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Night Studio: A Memoir Of Philip Guston

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Philip Guston was driven, sustained, and consumed by art. His style ranged from the social realism of his WPA murals through his abstract expressionist canvasses of the 1950s and 1960s to his cartoonlike paintings of Klansmen, disembodied heads, and tangled piles of everyday objects. Critics and public alike savaged Guston for his return to figurative art, but today his late work is recognized for the singular power of its darkly hilarious vision. Musa Mayer augments her firsthand knowledge with extensive interviews with his family, friends, students, and colleagues, as well as Guston's own letters, notes, and autobiographical writings, to re-create a turbulent era in American art. Night Studio, profusely illustrated , illuminates not only the life of a great artist, but the experience of growing up in his shadow.

Language: English

Pages: 320

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Da Capo Press

Release: March 22, 1997

ISBN: 030680767X

ISBN 13: 9780306807671

Night Studio: A Memoir Of Philip Guston

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Philip Guston was driven, sustained, and consumed by art. His style ranged from the social realism of his WPA murals through his abstract expressionist canvasses of the 1950s and 1960s to his cartoonlike paintings of Klansmen, disembodied heads, and tangled piles of everyday objects. Critics and public alike savaged Guston for his return to figurative art, but today his late work is recognized for the singular power of its darkly hilarious vision. Musa Mayer augments her firsthand knowledge with extensive interviews with his family, friends, students, and colleagues, as well as Guston's own letters, notes, and autobiographical writings, to re-create a turbulent era in American art. Night Studio, profusely illustrated , illuminates not only the life of a great artist, but the experience of growing up in his shadow.

Language: English

Pages: 320

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Da Capo Press

Release: March 22, 1997

ISBN: 030680767X

ISBN 13: 9780306807671

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