Philip Guston by Feld, Ross - 1980

NYRB Classics. Used - Like New. May have light shelf wear and/or a remainder mark. Complete. Clean pages.

New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

2022 paperback first thus with full number line in new condition .

First trade paperback edition, published by New York Review Books Classics, 2022. Ross Feld was a young writer and critic who befriended the artist, Philip Guston after writing a favorable review. This is his portrait of Guston, and his wife Musa. Standard NYRB size of 5" X 8", 162 pages, includes a section of color reproductions of Guston's art. No former ownership marks, no writing on the text pages. No creases to the cover or spine. Not a remainder, not a library discard. The attached photo is of the copy we have in our inventory.

Counterpoint, 2003-07-17. Hardcover. Used: Good.

New York Review of Books, 2022. Paperback. New. 192 pages. 8.00x5.00x0.55 inches.

New York: Counterpoint, 2003. 165 pages, illustrations; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "In the years following his controversial 1970 exhibition at the Marlborough Galleries, Philip Guston was generally viewed as yesterday's scandal, a maverick who had abandoned abstract expressionism and, with it, the adulation of the art world. Few paid serious attention to the disturbing, profound work he was producing in his Woodstock studio. So when Ross Feld, a young novelist and critic, wrote a penetrating review of Guston's latest show, the artist sent him a letter of appreciation: "I felt ... as if we knew each other and had had many discussions about painting and literature. In a word - I felt great recognition. Thus began a remarkable friendship,' Feld, a frequent visitor to Guston's studio where the two men would talk late into the night, became Guston's intellectual sparring partner and sounding board -… Read More

New York: George Braziller, Inc., (1980)., (1980).. Very good. - Quarto, 10-1/2 inches high by 9-1/8 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in red cloth titled in black on the front cover and the spine, in a color pictorial white dust wrapper. The dust jacket is slightly rubbed with a couple of tiny tears along the bottom edges of the jacket. 151 pages, profusely illustrated in color and black & white. Near fine in a very good dust wrapper.
First edition. Published in conjunction with the exhibitions organized by Henry T. Hopkins for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Washington's Corcoran Gallery of Art, Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art, Colorado's The Denver Art Museum, and New York's Whitney Museum of American Art.

NYRB Classics, 2022-05-23. paperback. New. 4x0x7. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

New York /: Georg Braziller / San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1980. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Wrappers. Inscribed with felt-tipped pen on the half-title page by Philip Guston 'For Debra, Philip Guston'. Clean, tight copy.