"Guston\'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, The Brooklyn Rail Philip Guston: Nixon Drawings is the first comprehensive collection of Guston\'s legendary satirical caricatures of the 37th President of the United States, Richard Nixon.
Caricaturing Nixon, Guston began to refine a pictorial language equally sensitive to inner pathos and the turmoil of the public world..
These late paintings were first exhibited, to savage critical reception, in 1970
Guston began his Nixon drawings at precisely this point in his career.
He began reintroducing figurative elements--clumsy hands, cigarettes, light bulbs--into his work in the late 1960s.
A contemporary of Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston (1913-80) first came to fame as an Abstract Expressionist.
This is the "Poor Richard," a slyly political little sneak, that appears in Guston\'s cartoons from the period.
The publication of the Pentagon Papers, and Nixon\'s unsuccessful attempts to prevent their disclosure, made the president look both amoral and somewhat hapless.
Kennedy, the chaos of the 1968 presidential election and the enduring violence of the Vietnam War. and Senator Robert F.
These 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.
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.
Expanding on Poor Richard (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. "Guston\'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, The Brooklyn Rail Philip Guston: Nixon Drawings is the first comprehensive collection of Guston\'s legendary satirical caricatures of the 37th President of the United States, Richard Nixon
