Research Catalog

Title

Philip Guston : Roma / edited by Peter Benson Miller.

Author

Guston, Philip, 1913-1980.

Publication

Ostfildern : Hatje Cantz, c2010.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Miller, Peter Benson
• Museo Carlo Bilotti
• Phillips Collection

Description

221 p. : ill. (chiefly col.); 28 cm.

Summary

Since Philip Guston's death in 1980, his late figurative paintings and drawings have steadily reaped the acclaim they deserve--acclaim that was largely denied them during Guston's lifetime (Hilton Kramer infamously reviewed Guston as a "mandarin pretending to be a stumblebum" in a damning 1970 "New York Times" article). This volume reunites a selection of paintings from the "Roma" series, completed during Guston's residency at the American Academy in Rome in 1970-71. From early in his career, Guston had taken inspiration from Italian art, and his 1973 painting "Pantheon" features a list of Italian painters: de Chirico, Masaccio, Piero della Francesca, Giotto and Tiepolo. Italian cinema (especially Fellini) and classical sculpture were also dear to his heart. The "Roma" works consolidate this dialogue with Italian art and culture. Diary entries published alongside the reproductions recount exchanges at the American Academy, pilgrimages to Venice, Arezzo, Sicily and Orvieto, and observations of the international cultural community in Rome.

Subjects

• Exhibition catalogs
• Diaries
• Italy > In art > Exhibitions
• McKim, Musa, 1908-1992 > Travel > Italy > Rome
• McKim, Musa, 1908-1992 > Diaries
• Guston, Philip, 1913-1980 > Travel > Italy > Rome > Exhibitions
• Guston, Philip, 1913-1980 > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• Diaries
• Exhibition catalogs

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition held at Museo Carlo Bilotti, Aranciera di Villa Borghese, Rome, May 26-Sept. 5, 2010 and the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Feb. 12-May 15, 2011.
• "Musa McKim's Italian Journals, 1970-71": p. 101-[145].

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 218-221).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Hoods on vacation : Philip Guston's Roma series / Peter Benson Miller -- All his roads led to-- / Dore Ashton -- Philip Guston's drawings in Italy / Michael Semff -- Musa McKim's Italian journals, 1970-71 -- Catalogue -- Checklist -- Exhibitions.

ISBN

• 9783775726320
• 3775726322

OCLC

• 630504080
• SCSB-10132875

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library