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I paint what I want to see / Philip Guston.

By: Series: Penguin classicsPublisher: UK : Penguin Books, 2022Description: 271 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 18 cmContent type:
  • still image
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780241525715
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Contents:
Interview with David Sylvester -- Piero della Francesca: the impossibility of painting -- Faith, hope, impossibility -- On Morton Feldman -- On Piero della Francesca -- Talk at Yale Summer School of Music and Art -- Conversations with Clark Coolidge -- Ten drawings -- On drawing -- Conversations with Harold Rosenberg -- Studio notes (1970-78) -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: How does a painter see the world? Philip Guston, one of the most significant artists of the twentieth century, spoke about art with unparalleled candour and commitment. Touching on work from across his career as well as that of his fellow artists and Renaissance heroes, this selection of his writings, talks and interviews draws together some of his most incisive reflections on iconography and abstraction, metaphysics and mysticism, and, above all, the nature of painting and drawing.
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Interview with David Sylvester -- Piero della Francesca: the impossibility of painting -- Faith, hope, impossibility -- On Morton Feldman -- On Piero della Francesca -- Talk at Yale Summer School of Music and Art -- Conversations with Clark Coolidge -- Ten drawings -- On drawing -- Conversations with Harold Rosenberg -- Studio notes (1970-78) -- Acknowledgments.

How does a painter see the world? Philip Guston, one of the most significant artists of the twentieth century, spoke about art with unparalleled candour and commitment. Touching on work from across his career as well as that of his fellow artists and Renaissance heroes, this selection of his writings, talks and interviews draws together some of his most incisive reflections on iconography and abstraction, metaphysics and mysticism, and, above all, the nature of painting and drawing.