
The Drawings
Philip Guston(Author)
Nieves (Publisher)
Published on 1. May 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
20 pages
978-3-907179-82-6 (ISBN)
Description
Philip Guston was born in Montreal, Quebec in 1913, the seventh child of Ukrainian immigrants. Raised in Los Angeles and largely self-taught, he found inspiration for his early murals in the masters of the Italian Renaissance. Early acclaim as a figurative painter and years spent teaching in the mid-West were followed by a Prix de Rome in 1948-49, after which he moved permanently to New York and turned to abstraction, joining contemporaries Pollock, De Kooning, Kline and Rothko. In the mid-1960's, Guston withdrew from the New York art scene to Woodstock, where he worked on the late figurative paintings for which he is now best known. He died in 1980, weeks after the opening of a major retrospective.
After his Jewish Museum exhibition in 1966, Guston moved to Florida and, during a period of personal crisis, stopped painting. Instead, he turned to producing simple drawings. '1 drew constantly... Drawing very pure lines, very few lines. Some of them ended up just one line or two lines on the paper.' For Guston, 'the successful ones ... were the ones where the space felt filled and they weren't just lines.'
After his Jewish Museum exhibition in 1966, Guston moved to Florida and, during a period of personal crisis, stopped painting. Instead, he turned to producing simple drawings. '1 drew constantly... Drawing very pure lines, very few lines. Some of them ended up just one line or two lines on the paper.' For Guston, 'the successful ones ... were the ones where the space felt filled and they weren't just lines.'
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Zurich
Switzerland
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 255 mm
Width: 195 mm
Weight
150 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-907179-82-6 (9783907179826)
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