{"product_id":"philip-guston-the-poets-9783906915005","title":"Philip Guston \u0026 the Poets","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhilip Guston and the Poets\u003c\/i\u003e explores the artist's oeuvre in relation to critical literary interpretation.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book draws parallels between humanist themes reflected in both Guston's paintings and drawings as well as in the language and prose discerned in five of the 20th century's most prominent literary figures: D.H. Lawrence, W.B. Yeats, Wallace Stevens, Eugenio Montale and T.S. Eliot. The enormous influence that Italy itself had upon Guston and his work is also examined.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpanning a 36-year period, \u003ci\u003ePhilip Guston and the Poets\u003c\/i\u003e features approximately 60 major paintings and 25 prominent drawings dating from 1944 through 1980, the last of which were created in the final year of Guston's life. The monograph also includes an extensive essay from Kosme de Barañano, an internationally respected art historian and Guston scholar.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA contemporary of Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, \u003cb\u003ePhilip Guston\u003c\/b\u003e (1913-80) first came to fame as an Abstract Expressionist. He began reintroducing figurative elements--clumsy hands, cigarettes, light bulbs--into his work in the late 1960s. These late paintings were first exhibited, to savage critical reception, in 1970.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Hauser \u0026 Wirth Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52179205652754,"sku":"9783906915005","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d91a2aa2-8054-4b8c-8d1a-2ad3747e8bbf.jpg?v=1775637234","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/philip-guston-the-poets-9783906915005","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}