Philip Guston (1913–1980)

Philip Guston: Poetry Drawings features the illustrative works by Guston accompanied by an authoritative essay by Bill Berkson, the great American poet and the artist's long-time friend - a testimony to just how fascinating the interplay of text and image can be
Philip Guston always had eminent artist friends.

Tireless in his quest for the unknown, the still undiscovered, Guston engaged poets and literati in intense dialogues that, starting in the sixties, led to fruitful collaborations - including the creation of numerous illustrations and cover images for works by poets such as William Corbett, Bill Berkson, and Clark Coolidge.

In his "poem-pictures," Guston ultimately turned to producing interactions of text and drawings - as responses to poems by his writer friends or as independent works that incorporated selected lines of poetry.… (más)

Another American comics artifact. Art and Seth also presented Poor Richard as part of the Vancouver Art Gallery's exhibit Krazy! The Delirious World Of Anime Comics Video Games. This is a weird one - this book came out of a month of prodigious illustration by Guston, who had been a well-known New York abstract artist. He had a show that was lambasted and retreated to Woodstock, where he befriended Phillip Roth. These drawings came out of dinner conversations about Richard Nixon and pre-dated his impeachment by three years.

Richard Nixon's face is a dick-and-balls. It's pretty great.… (más)