Night Studio: A Memoir Of Philip Guston
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Night Studio tells the story of Philip Guston, the American painter whose life was given over to making art. Written by his daughter, Musa Mayer, the memoir follows his path from the social realist murals he made under the Works Progress Administration to the abstract canvases that marked his work in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Mayer writes first as a child and later as an adult who watched a father wrestle with his craft, his moods and his changing vision. The book looks at the household that shaped his work and at the pressures of a career that demanded everything. Part portrait of an artist and part reflection on a complicated parent, it offers a close view of how Guston became the painter he was.
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