Telling Stories: Philip Guston's Later Works (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520265769)

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.

Author: David Kaufmann
ISBN-10: 0520265769
ISBN-13: 9780520265769
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 05/06/2010
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 8.92h x 4.80w x 0.45d