Guston in Time (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: Ross Feld
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: Memoir
- Time of Work: The twentieth century
- Setting: Primarily New York City; Los Angeles; and Woodstock, New York
- Principal Characters: Philip Guston, Ross Feld
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir
- Subjects: New York, Twentieth century, New York City, Literature, Art or artists, Friendship, California, Los Angeles, Canada or Canadians, Painting or painters, Sick persons, Drinking or drunkenness, Bohemianism, Smoking
- Locales: New York, NY, Los Angeles, CA, Woodstock, NY
The year 2003 saw renewed attention directed toward the iconoclastic American painter Philip Guston, with a major retrospective exhibition opening in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art in late fall. Not long before, in late summer, 2003, came a rich new book about the artist from a treasured friend of Guston’s later years, the writer Ross Feld. Feld’s Guston in Time: Remembering Philip Guston is an unusual book: part memoir, part selected correspondence, and additional commentary supplied by the author’s editors after his untimely death in 2001 from Hodgkin’s...
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