Philip Guston. Roma

Once celebrated as a leading member of the New York School, Philip Guston (1913-1980) is now even better known for his influential, late figurative paintings. This publication reunites paintings from the Roma series, completed during the artist´s residency at the American Academy in Rome in 1970-71 and which testifies to his dialogue with Italian art and culture. Inspired since his youth by masters of the Italian Renaissance, Guston´s lifelong admiration for Italy continued with his love of Giorgio de Chirico, Italian films-in particular those by Federico Fellini-Roman ruins, antique sculptural fragments, Italian gardens, and the country´s landscape and people. Diary entries recount intellectual exchanges at the American Academy; pilgrimages to Venice, Arezzo, Sicily, and Orvieto; and Guston´s observations of the vibrant international cultural community in Rome.