Guston in Time Remembering Philip Guston

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1582432848

Ross Feld is the author of four novels, a book of criticism, and a collection of poetry. He is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the MacDowell Colony. He lived for years in Cincinnati, where he died in May 2001 Philip Guston's life is, in many ways, a chronicle of American painting in the 20th century. A muralist associated with the WPA in the 1930s, by the 1940s Guston had turned away from public art to explore a more private vision. In the fifties and sixties he painted some of the most famous and poetic contributions to Abstract Expressionism. In the last and most important decade of his life, Guston's work changed again. His late, figurative work -- crude, bold and challenging -- enraged the art establishment but helped embolden a younger generation of artists to risk a new style of painting that became known as Neo-Expressionism. He died in 1980