Buch, Englisch, 120 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 213 mm, Gewicht: 386 g
Reihe: AFTERALL
Buch, Englisch, 120 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 213 mm, Gewicht: 386 g
Reihe: AFTERALL
ISBN: 978-1-84638-134-8
Verlag: AFTERALL BOOKS
cast of cartoon-like characters to articulate a vision that was at once comic, crude, and complex.
In The Studio, Guston offers a darkly comic portrait of the artist as a hooded Ku Klux Klansman, painting a self-portrait.
In this concise and generously illustrated book, Craig Burnett examines The Studio in detail. He describes the historical and personal motivations for Guston's return to figuration and the (mostly negative)
critical reaction to the work from Hilton Kramer and others. He looks closely at the structure of
The Studio, and at the influence of Piero della Francesca, Manet, and Krazy Kat, among others; and he considers the importance of the column of smoke in the painting -- as a compositional device and as a ghost of abstraction and metaphysics. The Studio signals not only Guston's own artistic evolution but a broader shift, from the medium-centric and teleological claim of modernism to the discursive, carnivalesque, and mucky world of postmodernism.