Robert Storr, the preeminent art critic, curator and artist, is the former Dean of Yale School of Art and senior curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. He has written numerous catalogues, articles and books on major 20th and 21st-century artists. He was the first American to be visual arts director of the Venice Biennale and has been researching and writing on Philip Guston for more than three decades.
"Philip Guston: A Life Spent Paintingis one of the biggest,
heaviest art books this year, and every ounce of it is earned.
Robert Storr, who's been writing about Guston (1913-80) for
decades, strikes an easy balance between erudition and awe-he has
all the facts, but you sense he'd be happy if you just basked in
the images. They're all here: the rollicking Depression-era murals;
the action paintings humming with Zen and Sartre; the cartoon
Klansmen redolent of nightmare as well as therapy. Mr. Storr's is
the definitive Guston book." Wall Street Journal
"Robert Storr and Philip Guston is a perfect match. The writing is
informative and passionate and enlarges the understanding of a
great American painter." - Alex Katz
"Storr is erudite, expansive, and respectful but not worshipful. In
his journey through Guston's painting world, he reengages with the
histories of related twentieth-centruy arguments, ideologies, and
artworks... Reading Storr in full swing is one of the great
pleasures of a life in art, and A Life Spent Painting delivers." -
Artforum
"Guston is the ultimate artist's artist, and he is so perfect an
artist for the complicated times we are living in, this is the
ultimate book on him. Storr follows him from the very beginning to
his break with abstraction and beyond, revelling in the late work,
and all of its intense reworking of all his earliest themes." -
Chantal Joffe
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