{"product_id":"philip-guston-nixon-drawings-1971-1975-hardcover","title":"Philip Guston: Nixon Drawings: 1971 \u0026 1975 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePhilip Guston\u003c\/b\u003e (Artist), \u003cb\u003eMusa Mayer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDebra Bricker Balken\u003c\/b\u003e (Text by (Art\/Photo Books))\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGuston's Richard Nixon drawings are nasty, scabrous, witty, grossly unfair and one of the juster verdicts handed down on our 37th president, the only one to resign from office. -William Corbett, \u003ci\u003eThe Brooklyn Rail\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhilip Guston: Nixon Drawings\u003c\/i\u003e is the first comprehensive collection of Guston's legendary satirical caricatures of the 37th President of the United States, Richard Nixon. Expanding on \u003ci\u003ePoor Richard\u003c\/i\u003e (University of Chicago Press, 2001, now out of print and rare), it features some 180 works depicting Nixon and his cronies from 1971 and 1975. The book opens with an introduction by Philip Guston's daughter, Musa Mayer, and also includes the transcript of a panel discussion moderated by Phong Bui with William Corbett, Irving Sandler, Lisa Yuskavage, Bob Mankoff and Katy Siegel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese trenchant works were created in the tumultuous political climate of the early 1970s; the US was reeling from the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Senator Robert F. Kennedy, the chaos of the 1968 presidential election and the enduring violence of the Vietnam War. The publication of the Pentagon Papers, and Nixon's unsuccessful attempts to prevent their disclosure, made the president look both amoral and somewhat hapless. This is the \"Poor Richard,\" a slyly political little sneak, that appears in Guston's cartoons from the period.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA contemporary of Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, \u003cb\u003ePhilip Guston\u003c\/b\u003e (1913-80) first came to fame as an Abstract Expressionist. He began reintroducing figurative elements--clumsy hands, cigarettes, light bulbs--into his work in the late 1960s. These late paintings were first exhibited, to savage critical reception, in 1970; Guston began his Nixon drawings at precisely this point in his career. Caricaturing Nixon, Guston began to refine a pictorial language equally sensitive to inner pathos and the turmoil of the public world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 12.6 x 11.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 27, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769731186976,"sku":"9783906915029","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/8042ec228baaaa7db675da6b9af88377.webp?v=1780354858","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/philip-guston-nixon-drawings-1971-1975-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}