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Reviews
An acerbic, outraged, frustrated and often hilarious response to then-President Richard Nixon. -- Aruna D'Souza * The New York Times: Arts *
Never mind that Guston's later "cartoon" paintings are among my favorite period in the oeuvre of my favorite artist, the audacity, wit, and acerbic genius of these sketchbook renderings are richly satisfying on many levels. -- Steven Heller * PRINT *
Poor Richard brings together the suite of outrageous, wacky, scatological, anti-Nixon drawings that Guston committed to two spiral-bound notebooks in the privacy of his studio in Woodstock in 1971, and which remained unpublished for 30 years. -- Michael Glover * Hyperallergic *
Nixon critics tend to associate his name not just with lying and abuse of power, but also with maudlin sentimentalism and elaborate excuse-making. A half-century later, as we approach the end of the first term of a president who, for many people, has taken these same characteristics to a new and rarefied level, Guston's Nixon drawings look freshly relevant. -- Sebastian Smee * Washington Post *
Philip Guston Now is the catalogue for a traveling exhibition that was supposed to open at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., this summer. Though that may yet happen, what we have for now is a lushly illustrated book with scholarly essays on various aspects of Guston's work by that exhibition's four curators. It is accompanied by Poor Richard, a slim volume containing a selection of Guston's satirical drawings of Richard Nixon, created in the summer of 1971, two years before Watergate [...] Together, the two books emphasize Guston's intense involvement in the world outside the studio. -- Editors * Art In America *
Book Information
ISBN 9781942884576
Author Philip Guston
Format Paperback
Page Count 96
Imprint Distributed Art Publishers
Publisher Distributed Art Publishers