Research Catalog

Title

Philip Guston : late paintings / [texts, David Anfam, Philip Larratt-Smith and Paul Nesbitt].

Author

Guston, Philip, 1913-1980

Publication

• Edinburgh : Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden, [2014]
• ©2014

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Details

Additional Authors

• Anfam, David
• Larratt-Smith, Philip
• Nesbitt, Paul
• Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh

Description

56 pages : illustrations (chiefly col.); 34 cm

Summary

"In 1967 Philip Guston (1913-80) left New York City for Woodstock, where--abandoning the Abstract Expressionism of the previous decades--he revisited the figurative imagery of his youth. Cartoonlike in quality, these paintings began to incorporate motifs familiar to him since childhood, from the hooded figures of the Ku Klux Klan to everyday objects such as lightbulbs, shoes and cigarettes. When these paintings were shown for the first time in 1970, they proved highly controversial but soon gained critical recognition and are now widely regarded as some of the most compelling and influential works of the late twentieth century."--Amazon.com.

Alternative Title

Late paintings

Subject

• Guston, Philip, 1913-1980 > Exhibitions
• 1900-1999
• Painting, American > 20th century > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs
• Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition held at Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, July 25-October 7, 2012.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / Paul Nesbitt -- Thoughts on the paintings / David Anfam in conversation with Paul Nesbitt -- Milk and bourbon / Philip Larratt-Smith.

ISBN

• 9781906129903
• 1906129908

OCLC

• 927380868
• SCSB-10208615

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library