Philip Guston: Roma by Dore Ashton, Peter Miller, Philip Guston - April 2011

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Since Philip Guston's death in 1980, his late figurative paintings and drawings have steadily reaped the acclaim they deserve--acclaim that was largely denied them during Guston's lifetime (Hilton Kramer infamously reviewed Guston as a "mandarin pretending to be a stumblebum" in a damning 1970 New York Times article). This volume reunites a selection of paintings from the Roma series, completed during Guston's residency at the American Academy in Rome in 1970-71. From early in his career, Guston had taken inspiration from Italian art, and his 1973 painting "Pantheon" features a list of Italian painters: de Chirico, Masaccio, Piero della Francesca, Giotto and Tiepolo. Italian cinema (especially Fellini)… Read More

Stuttgart - Berlin: Hatje Cantz Verlag, , 2010. Rilegato, sovracoperta (hard cover, dust jacket). Ottimo (Fine). A cura di Peter Benson Miller. Catalogo della mostra itinerante tenutasi presso: Museo Carlo Bilotti. Aranciera di Villa Borghese, Roma 26 maggio - 5 settembre 2010; The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C. 12 febbario - 15 maggio 2011. Testi di Peter Benson Miller, Dore Ashton, Michael Semff. Diario del viaggio in Italia, di Musa McKim, 1970-71. Con 112 illustrazioni in bianco e nero e 94 a colori. Catalogo delle opere esposte e Bibliografia. cm 27,7x21,5. pp. 224. Ottimo (Fine). . Tra i più celebri esponenti della Scuola di New York, Guston fu, con Pollock, Rothko e De Kooning, uno dei padri dell'Espressionismo Astratto. Nell'ottobre del 1970, le critiche seguite alla mostra presso la Marlborough Gallery, che segnò il suo ritorno alla tradizione figurativa, lo indussero a lasciare gli Stati Uniti. Scelse l'Italia e si trasferì a Roma, ospite dell'American Academy… Read More

Very Good. Hatje Cantz 2011. First Edition. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Pages clean, unmarked. Cover has light wear. Jacket lightly rubbed. Shipped boxed, securely packaged, with Tracking and Signauture Confirmation. Txbk17

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