Item Number: 124828 Title: Out of Time : PHILIP GUSTON and the Refiguration of Postwar American Art Author: Slifkin, Robert Price: Not Available ISBN: 9780520275294 Description: Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013. 26cm., hardcover, 246pp. 79 b&w illus., 24 plates, most in color. Summary: Focusing on the thirty-three paintings Philip Guston exhibited at the Marborough 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, this book examines the role of history as both artistic medium and creative catalyst to Guston’s practice as a painter. Employing a wealth of visual examples, archival materials, and original scholarship, Robert Slifkin situates Guston’s paintings within broader artistic debates of the time, using the cultural movement of “the sixties” as its orienting foreground. Through this historical framework, he crafts an interface between the notions of time in art and time in the material world. Lively and edifying, this 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. We regret to inform you that this title is no longer available. P.O. Box 3904, Kingston, New York 12402 US Phone: 845-331-8519 Fax: 845-331-0852 Email: michael@artbooks.com |
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