Philip Guston & the poets

by Kosme María de Barañano Letamendía

Published to accompany the exhibition "Philip Guston and The Poets" at Gallerie dell'Accademia (May ? September 2017), this monograph exposes the artist?s oeuvre to critical literary interpretation. The exhibition 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 twentieth 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. Spanning a...