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Telling Stories

Philip Guston's Later Works

David Kaufmann author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of California Press

Published:21st May '10

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In "Telling Stories", David Kaufmann focuses on Philip Guston's controversial figurative paintings of the late 1960s and 1970s. He looks at the early critical reception of these works to see what the artist was actually doing and, at another level, to investigate the odd alchemy of artists and their audiences. Grounding his historical approach in careful readings of the paintings, Kaufmann pays close attention to Guston's intense and complicated relationship to Judaism. At the same time, by situating Guston in the context of the fashions of the New York art world, Kaufmann provides unique insight into the workings of that world at the moment when the strictures of artistic modernism began to fade.

ISBN: 9780520265769

Dimensions: 210mm x 140mm x 16mm

Weight: 181g

128 pages