From Library Journal
The enigmatic artist Philip Guston is remembered here by poet and friend William Corbett. Guston, like many abstract expressionists, was associated with the Federal Art Project of the 1930s. Guston's solitary struggle between pure abstraction and loaded images of shoes, spaghetti, legs, and heads confused the critics, to say the least. Though Guston never quite attained the stature of de Kooning, Kline, Pollack, or Rothko, Corbett makes a convincing case for him by focusing on their personal relationship and his interpretation of Guston's later works. This important book is an intimate look at an artist written by a poet. Recommended for comprehensive art collections. For another view, see Dore Ashton's A Critical Study of Philip Guston (Univ. of California Pr., 1990).
Daniel J. Lombardo, Jones Lib., Amherst, Mass.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Daniel J. Lombardo, Jones Lib., Amherst, Mass.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
