Out of Time Philip Guston and the Refiguration of Postwar American Art |
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| Author:
| Slifkin, Robert |
| Series title: | The Phillips Collection Book Prize Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-520-27529-4 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2013 |
| Publisher: | University of California Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $60.00 |
Book Description:
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Focusing on the thirty-three paintings that Philip Guston exhibited at the Marlborough Gallery in 1970, this in-depth account reconsiders the history of postwar American art and the conception of figuration in modern art history. Through a myriad of cultural touchstones, including evidence from literary and musical vogues of the period, Robert Slifkin examines the role of history as both artistic medium and creative catalyst to Guston_s practice as a painter. Slifkin employs a...
More DescriptionFocusing on the thirty-three paintings that Philip Guston exhibited at the Marlborough Gallery in 1970, this in-depth account reconsiders the history of postwar American art and the conception of figuration in modern art history. Through a myriad of cultural touchstones, including evidence from literary and musical vogues of the period, Robert Slifkin examines the role of history as both artistic medium and creative catalyst to Guston_s practice as a painter. Slifkin employs a wealth of visual examples, archival materials, and original scholarship to situate Guston_s paintings within broader artistic debates of the time, using the cultural movement of _the sixties_ as its orienting foreground. This historical framework provides an interface between the notions of time in art and time in the material world. Lively and edifying, Slifkin_s comprehensive text productively complicates the prescribed traditions of postwar art history and, in turn, shifts our perception of Guston and his place in the domain of modern art.