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Product Review Summary: The best available on Guston Written by a leading art critic, this study of Guston's life and work is at the same time comprehensive and easy to read. From his figurative beginnings and his murals in the 1930's and 1940's, to his abstract expressionnist period of the 1950's and 1960's and his controversial return to figurative art with cartoon-like characters influenced by H.Crumb's comics in the 1970's, this book covers the entire career of one of America's most influencial artists. The many illustrations add to the value of this book as being, in my opinion, the best available on Philip Guston.
Product Review Summary: Great intro to Guston Given most art criticism, which focuses on theory with polysyllabic intensity, this book is a perfect, easy to read intro to the artist and one that makes his work more accessible. Don't fear to immerse yourself in this fine, brief bio and its color pics!
Product Review Summary: Very good history Philip Guston's long career had three distinctive phases. As a young man, he took up painting with the WPA artist program and made left-leaning, social-realist murals and canvases in many places around the country. By the late 1940's, he had moved on to abstraction, producing shimmering, painterly works that were somewhere between the dynamism of Jackson Pollock and the stillness of Mark Rothko. In the last ten years of his life, influenced by the restlessness of the 60's, he painted Robert Crumb-like cartoonish images that hinted at even darker comic nightmares than Crumb ever imagined (and, more occasionally, the uplifting power of love and idealism). This last phase may have been the best of all. Storr's great book is an excellent exegesis of all three of these hard-to-follow transitions, by an artist that simply did not make analysis easy. The mostly full-color illustrations complement the text almost perfectly.
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