Master Baffler: How Philip Guston Gave Form to Doubt

“Paul Valéry once said that a bad poem is one that vanishes into meaning,” Philip Guston told an interviewer in 1966, adding, “In a painting in which this is a room, this is a chair, this is a head, the imagery does not exist — it vanishes into recognition…. I want my work to include more.”

Excerpt from an excellent article you can read here.

Endlessly animated: Fable II (1957) by Philip Guston

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