Philip Guston

This is the premier collection of dialogues, talks, and writings by Philip Guston (1913–1980), one of the most intellectually adventurous and poetically gifted of modern painters. Over the course of his life, Guston’s wide reading in literature and philosophy deepened his commitment to his art—from his early Abstract Expressionist paintings to his later gritty, intense figurative works. This collection, with many pieces appearing in print for the first time, lets us hear Guston’s voice—as the artist delivers a lecture on Renaissance painting, instructs students in a classroom setting, and discusses such artists and writers as Piero della Francesca, de Chirico, Picasso, Kafka, Beckett, and Gogol.

Clark Coolidge has published many volumes of poetry and a collaboration with Philip Guston, Baffling Means: Writings/Drawings. Dore Ashton is Professor of Art History at the Cooper Union. Her many books include A Critical Study of Philip Guston, available from UC Press.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction by Dore Ashton

Statement in Art News Annual (1944)
Statement in Twelve Americans (1956)
Notes on Bradley Walker Tomlin (1957)
Interview with Sam Hunter (1957)
From the Chicago Panel (1958)
Statement in Nature in Abstraction (1958)
Statement in It Is (1958)
Statement in The New American Painting (1957–58/1959)
Interview with David Sylvester (1960).
From Panel at the Philadelphia Museum School of Art (1960)
Conversation with Bill Berkson (1964)
Interview with Joseph S. Trovato (1965)
Piero della Francesca: The Impossibility of Painting (1965)
Philip Guston’s Object: Conversation with Harold Rosenberg (1965)
Faith, Hope, and Impossibility (1965/66)
Conversation with Joseph Ablow (1966)
Interview with Karl Fortess (1966)
On Morton Feldman (1967)
Conversation with Morton Feldman (1968)
The Image (1969)
On Piero della Francesca (1971)
Talk at Yale Summer School of Music and Art (1972)
Conversation with Louis Finkelstein (1972)
Conversation with Clark Coolidge (1972)
Talk at Yale Summer School of Music and Art (1973)
On the Nixon Drawings (1973)
Ten Drawings (1973)
On Survival (1974)
On Drawing (1974)
Conversation with Harold Rosenberg (1974)
Talk at “Art/Not Art?” Conference (1978)
From Panel at “Art/Not Art?” Conference (1978)
Interview with Jan Butterfield (1979)
Interview with Mark Stevens (1980)
Interview with Joanne Dickson (1980)
Studio Notes (1970–78)

Bibliography
List of Illustrations
Index