Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations, Paperback

This is the premier collection of dialogues, talks, and writings by Philip Guston (19131980), one of the most intellectually adventurous and poetically gifted of modern painters. Over the course of his life, Guston s wide reading in literature and philosophy deepened his commitment to his artfrom his early Abstract Expressionist paintings to his later gritty, intense figurative works. This collection, with many pieces appearing in print for the first time, lets us hear Guston s voiceas the artist delivers a lecture on Renaissance painting, instructs students in a classroom setting, and discusses such artists and writers as Piero della Francesca, de Chirico, Picasso, Kafka, Beckett, and Gogol."