Philip Guston: The Studio (Philip Guston) (Afterall Books / One Work) (Afterall)

by Craig Burnett

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An illustrated examination of Philip Guston's comic and complex painting The Studio.

Throughout his career, Philip Guston's work metamorphosed from figural to abstract and back to figural. In the 1950s, Guston (1913–1980) produced a body of shimmering abstract paintings that made him—along with Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and Franz Kline—an influential abstract expressionist of the “gestural” tendency. In the late 1960s, with works like The Studio came his most radical shift. Drawing from the imagery of his early murals and from elements in his later drawings, ignoring the prevailing “coolness” of Minimalism and antiform abstraction, Guston invented for these...

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  • ISBN10 1846381339
  • ISBN13 9781846381331
  • Publish Date 28 February 2014 (first published 7 February 2014)
  • Publish Status Transferred
  • Out of Print 8 May 2015
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Afterall Publishing