An edition of Philip Guston (2014)

Philip Guston

The studio

Philip Guston
Craig Burnett, Craig Burnett
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An edition of Philip Guston (2014)

Philip Guston

The studio

Philip Guston's The Studio (1969) depicts a member of the Ku Klux Klan painting a self-portrait. Darkly comic, crude and complex, The Studio is a key work in Guston's shift from abstract expressionism to his late figurative style. In this generously illustrated book, Craig Burnett examines Guston's engagement with the history and limitations of painting during the last decade of his life. Burnett reflects that The Studio signals not only a broader historical moving away from the medium-centric claims of modernist abstraction but also a personal shift to subject matter that was discursive, playful and carnivalesque. He argues that The Studio's existential 'play of self' and 'Kierkegaardian despair' is counter-balanced by the lure of compositional coherence to be found within paintings by artists such as Piero della Francesca, among others. Finally Burnett focuses on 'a passage of supreme poetry', the column of smoke central to The Studio, its importanceas a compositional device and its presence as a ghost of abstraction."

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Publisher
Afterall Books
Language
English
Pages
101

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Philip Guston: The Studio
2014, Afterall Publishing
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Cover of: Philip Guston
Philip Guston: The Studio
2014, MIT Press
in English
Cover of: Philip Guston
Philip Guston: The Studio
2014, MIT Press
in English
Cover of: Philip Guston
Philip Guston: The studio
2014, Afterall Books
in English

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Published in
London
Series
One work series, One work

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
759.1
Library of Congress
ND237.G8 B876 2014, ND237.G8 A75 2014, ND237

The Physical Object

Pagination
101 pages
Number of pages
101

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27166973M
ISBN 10
1846381347, 1846381339
ISBN 13
9781846381348, 9781846381331
LCCN
2013388336
OCLC/WorldCat
861323101

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