Philip Guston : works on paper
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Philip Guston : works on paper
Hatje Cantz, 2007
- : English
- : German
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Exhibition catalogue
Catalog of the exhibition held at the Kunstmuseum Bonn, March 1 - May 20, 2007 ; Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, May 31 - August 26, 2007 ; Albertina, Vienna, September 7 - November 25, 2007 ; Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, December 13, 2007 - March 2, 2008 ; The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, May 2, 2008 - August 31, 2008
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Description
Painter Philip Guston's return to figuration in the late 1960s was plotted and rehearsed in his drawing practice, in which he veered between what he referred to as "pure drawing" (abstract) and figurative drawing (a shoe, a chair, a nail, an open book, a hooded head). As he groped his way into this strange and clunky vocabulary, Guston discovered an incredible world awaiting him, and realized, as he put it, that "I wanted to tell stories!"
Guston's drawing was also a vehicle for collaboration--with poets such as Clark Coolidge and Bill Berkson--and for satire--the Poor Richard series. His draftsmanship betrays such early influences as the cartoons of Frink and George Herriman, perhaps instances of the "impure" art that flooded back into his practice after he abandoned abstraction. With a selection of about 100 drawings, mostly from the artist's estate, Philip Guston: Works on Paper tracks the evolution of this major American artist's drawing from the 1940s to 1980.
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