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Page numbers for illustrations appear in italics.

A

Abstract Expressionism, 6 , 85 , 103 , 105 -106, 133

Actor, 118

"After the Last Dynasty," 124

Air series, 129,130

Alchemist, 120 ,128 -29

Alloway, Lawrence, 102

Americana, 30

American Academy in Rome, 92 , 171

American Academy of Art and Letters, 82

American Legion, 17 , 27

American Mercury,13

"Anxiety of Art, The," 123

Apollinaire, Guillaume, 22 , 68 , 124 , 141

"Après-Midi d'un faune, L'," 20

Aragon, Louis, 179 , 180

Arenal, Luis, 27

Arensberg, Walter and Louise, 20 -21

Arezzo, Italy, 82 , 149

Armory Show of 1913, 20

Arnason, H. Harvard, 84

Aronson, Mr. (furrier), 16

Artists Against War and Fascism, 159

Artists' Club, 85 , 87 , 92

Artists' Congress, 33 , 38

Artists' Union, 34 , 35

Art News, 60 , 102 , 148

Arts, The, 13

Art Students League, 13 , 33 , 34

Art Vivant, L',23

Attar, 98 , 106 , 160

Auden, W. H., 80

B

Babel, Isaac, 90 , 144 -45, 164 , 174

Banville, Théodore de, 69

Baptism of Christ, 56 ,66 , 148 , 153

Barker, Walter, 72

Barrymore, John, 18

Bathing Beauty,23

Battle of San Romano,45 , 54

Baudelaire, Charles Pierre, 49 , 68 -69, 90 , 97 , 124 , 139 , 140

Baziotes, William, 133

Beck, Rosemary, 79

Beckett, Samuel, 80 , 160

Beckmann, Max, 23 , 64 , 65 , 73 , 75 , 76 , 169

Beethoven, Ludwig van, 73 , 111 -12

Beggar's Joys,107 , 112

Benton, Thomas Hart, 33 , 34

Berenson, Bernhard, 54

Bergman, Ingmar, 69

Berkson, Bill, 125 , 147

Biddle, George, 29

Blitzstein, Marc, 36 , 37

Blume, Peter, 23

Bombardment, 24 ,38

Bosch, Hieronymus, 167

Boston University, 85

Brach, Paul, 101

Brancusi, Constantin, 21

Braque, Georges, 53

Brod, Max, 89

Brodsky, Joseph, 177 -78

Bromfield, Louis, 23

Brooks, James, 34 -35, 39 , 40 , 44

Brown, Don, 15

Brueghel, Pieter, the Elder, 167

Buchholz Gallery, 64

Büchner, Georg, 2

C

Cage, John, 92 -94, 101

Cahiers d' Art,16 , 23

Camus, Albert, 84 , 88 -89

Canvas, The,180

Carnegie Institute, 49 , 71 , 74

Castle, The (Kafka), 56 , 140

Cavallon, Giorgio, 124

Cedar Bar, New York, 87

Cervantes, Miguel de, 167 -68

Cézanne, Paul, 19 , 22 , 47 , 102 , 103 -104, 146

Chagall, Marc, 21

Chaplin, Charlie, 17

Charlot, Louis, 34

Cherry, Herman, 18 , 22

Chicago, Illinois, 1968 Democratic convention in, 156

Chouinard Institute, 26

Christ's Entry into Brussels,142

City, The, 40 , 41

City Art Museum, St. Louis, 49

Civil Works Administration Arts Projects, 30

Cleveland School of Cartooning, 12


214

Clock, The, 113

Close-Up 111 ,129 -30

Cocteau, Jean, 90

Colette, 80

Columbia University, 92

Complications, 175 ,176

Conspirators, The,7 , 8 , 10 , 22 , 48 , 81

Contact, 18

Coolidge, Clark, 160 -61

Copland, Aaron, 36

Corot, Jean Baptiste Camille, 53 , 63

Corridor, 165

Cowell, Henry, 93

Cradle Will Rock, The,36

Craven, Thomas, 23

Creative Art,13 , 23 , 25

Creeley, Robert, 123

Cubism and Cubists, 3 , 66 , 146 , 173 ;

early influence of, on Guston, 13 , 14 , 19 , 40 , 41 , 44 , 47 ;

Feitelson and, 120 ;

Guston departs from, 77 , 89 , 165 ;

Iowa and St. Louis periods and, 51 , 75 , 76

Cummings, e. e., 15

D

Dadaists, 141

Dante Alighieri, 20 , 138 ;

Paradiso and Inferno,168

da Silva, Howard, 37

Daumier, Honoré, 49 , 139

Daves, Delmer, 18

Davis, Stuart, 38 , 39 -40

Day of the Locust, The,11 , 140 , 142

Day's Work, A, 166

De architectura (Vitruvius), 137 -38

de Chirico, Giorgio, 22 , 54 , 63 , 140 , 176 ;

early influence of, on Guston, 7 -8, 21 , 41 , 44 , 46 , 48 ;

Iowa and St. Louis periods of Guston and, 53 , 56 , 57 ;

style of, 74 , 96 , 141 , 156 , 175 ;

writings of, 150 -51, 153

de Kooning, Willem, 39 , 52 , 78 , 81 , 82 , 88 , 113,114

Deluge, The, 168

Depression of 1930s, 15 , 17 , 25 , 27 , 29 , 47

Derain, André, 23

Desert, The,170 , 178

Desolate, 177

Dial, 109 -10

Dial, The, 13 , 15 , 16

Dickens, Charles, 57

Dies Committee, 38

Diller, Burgoyne, 39 , 41

Discussion, 165

Disparates, Los,180

Doctor Faustus,36

Don Quixote (Cervantes), 168 -69

Dostoyevsky, Feodor 13 , 88

Dovchenko, Alexander, 16

Drawing (1953), 86

Drawing (1960), 126

Drawing (1966), 134

Drawing (1967), 156

Drawing No. 2, 83

Drawing No. 9, 95

Dream Life of Balso Snell, The (West), 140

Duchamp, Marcel, 20 , 21

Dürer, Albrecht, 54 -55, 56 , 58 , 138

E

Egan Gallery, 101 , 103 , 105

Einstein, Albert, 121 -22

Eisenstein, Sergei, 16 , 26

Embarkation for Cythera, The,69

Ensor, James, 127 , 142 , 169

Ernst, Jimmy, 82

Ernst, Max, 7 , 140

Eucalyptus School of Painting, 23

Expressionists,

see also Abstract Expressionism, 64 , 73 , 116

F

Fable series, 110 , 111

"Faith, Hope and Impossibility," 126 , 148

Faure, Élie, 54

Federal Art Project, 39 , 44 , 78 , 82

Federal Theater, 35 , 38

Feitelson, Lorser, 19 -20, 22 , 23

Feldman, Morton, 92 , 93 , 94 -95, 105 , 111 , 123 , 160

Fellini, Federico, 69 , 96 -97, 163

Fisher, Bud, 13

Flagellation of Christ,54 , 147 -48, 149 -150

Flanagan, Hallie, 36 , 37 , 38

Flatlands, 169

Flaubert, Gustave, 49 , 57 -59, 84 , 92 , 104 -105, 140 , 145 , 157

Florence, Italy, 82 , 171

Focillon, Henri, 54

For M, 108 , 109

Fortune magazine, 62

Fountain in Rome,172

Frank Wiggins Trade School, 30

Franz Kline, 114

Frost, Rosamond, 71 -72

Fry, Roger, 54

G

Gallatin, A. E., 40

Gautier, Théophile, 68

Genet, Jean, 80

German Expressionism, see Expressionists

German Gothic painters, 74

Ghiberti, Lorenzo, 138

Gilles, 68 , 139

Giotto, 19 , 34

Gladiators, 47 , 48

Gleizes, Albert, 20 , 21

Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich, 142 -44, 146 , 156 , 174

Golschmann, Vladimir, 72 , 73

Gorky, Arshile, 39 , 40 , 52 , 81

Gottlieb, Adolf, 79 , 82

Goya, Francesco, 82 , 137 , 139 , 164 , 169 , 173 , 176 -77, 180

Greco, El, 82

Green, Henry, 80

Greenberg, Clement, 78

Greene, Stephen, 52 , 53 , 65 , 73 -74, 146

Gropper, William, 47

Grosz, George, 14 , 18 , 30 , 159

Grünewald, Matthias, 65

Guernica, 41 , 47 , 145

Guggenheim, Peggy, 78 -79

Guggenheim Fellowship, 76

Guggenheim Museum, 84 , 123 , 131 , 133 , 134

Guston, Philip: Navy murals, 62 ;

pictures and portraits of, 17 , 36 , 119 ;

self-portraits, 81 , 167 , 183

"Guy de Maupassant," 145

H

Hague, Raoul, 79

Half Past Three (The Poet),21

Hals, Frans, 15

Hand, 157

Harold Rosenberg, 130

Harriman, George, 13

Harris, Ruth Green, 44

Hasidism, 94 , 178

Hines (Red Squad member), 27

Hitler, Adolf, 38

Holiday, 64 , 65

Hollywood, California, 11 , 15 , 29

Holmes, Mary, 76 , 78

Hooded Self-Portrait,167

Hoover, Herbert, 30

Hope Abandoned (Mandelstam), 178

Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 124

Houseman, John, 37

House Un-American Activities Committee, 38

Huston, John, 18

I

If This Be Not I,60 , 64 , 65 -68, 71 , 72 , 75 -76

"I is another," 132

"Illumination," 124

Impressionism, 102 , 103

"In Beethoven," 111 -12

Inge, William, 73

Inside Out, 136

International Workers of the World (IWW), 13

Iowa City, Iowa, 51 -52, 53 , 60 , 62 -64, 72 , 73

Ischia, Italy, 82 , 83

Isenheim Altarpiece, 65

It Is, 106

I Vitelloni (film), 96

J

James, Henry, 159

Janouch, Gustave, 57

Janson, H. W., 49 , 53 , 65 , 73 , 75 , 84

Jarry, Alfred, 141

Jeune Parque, La (Valéry), 123

Jewish Museum, 131 , 133 , 135 , 146 , 153 , 173

John Reed Club, 25 , 26 -27

Jouhandeau, Marcel, 80

"Journal for My Daughter," 124

Joyce, James, 13 , 15 , 140

Julius Caesar,36

K

Kadish, Reuben, 12 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 19 , 27 , 30 -31, 32 , 33 -34


215

Kafka, Franz, 56 -58, 68 , 78 , 80 , 88 , 89 -90, 122 , 124 -27, 140 , 155 , 157 , 160

Kamin, Martin, 73

Kayser, Wolfgang, 137 -38

Kierkegaard, Soren Aabye, 89 -90, 97 , 122 , 155 , 175 -76

King, Alexander, 30

Kings County Hospital, 34 , 39 , 44

Kleist, Heinrich von, 57

Kline, Franz, 83 , 114 , 124 , 133

"Kolyvushka," 145

Kramer, Hilton, 133

Kreymborg, Alfred, 20

Krishnamurti, Jiddu, 13 -14, 15 , 94

Kuhn, Walt, 87

Ku Klux Klan, 81 , 82 , 156 , 164

Ku Klux Klan, 7 , 17 , 27

Kunitz, Stanley, 123 -24, 125

L

Langer, Susanne, 131

Langsner, Jules, 16 , 31 , 32

Lautréamont, Comte de, 182

Law, The, 162

Lawler, James, 94

League Against War and Fascism, 38

"Lecture on Nothing," 92

Léger, Fernand, 23 , 40 , 41 , 53 , 173

Lehman, Harold, 27 , 30 , 31

Life magazine, 6 , 52 , 74

Life of Forms in Art, The (Focillon), 54

Living Newspaper,36

Looking, 128 ,130

Lorenzetti brothers 74

Los Angeles, California, 11 -12, 15 , 17 , 19 , 23 , 26 , 29 , 31 , 33 , 51 , 73 , 140

Los Angeles County Museum, 20 , 29

M

McCoy, Sande, 13 , 32 , 33 , 34

McKim, Musa, 15 -16, 34 , 39 , 46 , 65 , 171 , 172 , 194

MacLeish, Archibald, 37

McPherson, Aimee Semple, 12 -13

Madonna della Misericordia,7

Magazine of Art,75

Mallarmé, Stéphane, 20 , 84 , 160

Malraux, André, 38

Mandelstam, Nadezhda, 177 -78

Manet, Édouard, 49

Mantegna, Andrea, 19 , 40

Manual Arts High School, 12 , 13 , 14

Marlborough Gallery exhibition 164 , 171 , 172

Martial Memory, 42 ,47 -49, 53 , 64 , 66

Martin, Fletcher, 17 , 18 , 26

Masaccio, 19 , 29 , 32

Matter, Mercedes, 84

Maximilian's summer palace, Mexico, mural at, 31 , 32

Melancholia, 54 -56, 150 , 173

Melville, Herman, 160

Merry Jesters,21

Metamorphosis, The (Kafka), 56

"Metamorphosis and Myth in Modern Art," 76

Mexican mural movement, 25 -26, 32 , 33

Mexico City, Mexico, 31

Michaux, Henri, 90

Michelangelo, 7 , 15 , 19 , 32

"Mickey Mouse and American Art," 18

Midtown Galleries, New York, 71

Miró, Juan, 41

Miss Lonelyhearts (West), 141 -42

Mondrian, Piet, 39 , 41 , 100 , 101

Monet, Claude, 103

Monsieur Teste (Valéry), 123

Mother and Child,7 , 9 , 22 , 29

Motherwell, Robert, 89 , 90 , 91,114

Mumford, Lewis, 38

Municipal Art Gallery, 44

Museum of Modern Art, 46 , 106

Mussolini, Benito, 38

N

Nabokov, Vladimir, 143 -44, 146

National Legion of Decency, 29

Natives' Return,113

Negulesco, Jean, 18

Neue Sachlichkeit movement, 20

New Deal, 29 , 33 , 36 , 38

Newman, Barnett, 79

New Masses, 13 , 15 , 34 , 47

New Place, 130

New School, 33 , 34

New York: in 1930s, 23 , 33 , 34 , 38 ;

in 1940s, 51 , 52 , 53 , 64 , 78 , 79 , 92 ;

in 1960s, 133 , 156 ;

in 1970s, 172 ;

one-man shows of Guston in, 71 , 101 ;

return of Guston to live in, 84 , 87 , 95 , 119

New Yorker, The,6 , 15

New York School (art movement), 52 , 82 , 84 -85, 89 , 101 , 133

New York Times, The,6 , 44 , 133 , 164

New York University, 40 , 84

New York World's Fair of 1939, 41 , 43

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 13 , 151

Nixon, Richard M., 29 , 157 , 158

Nude Descending a Staircase,20

O

Olvera Street mural, 26

"On the Essence of Laughter," 139

Orozco, José Clemente, 18 , 25 -26, 31 , 32 , 33 , 34

Orvieto, Italy, 82 , 164 , 171

Otis Art Institute, 15 , 16 , 19

Our Gang (Roth), 157

Ouspensky, P. D., 15 , 94

Overcoat, The,144

P

Pacher, Michael, 65

Painter, 129 , 165

Painter I, 116 ,119

Painter II, 117

Painter and Model,165

Painter's City,113

Painter's Forms, 175

Painter's Table,174 -75

Painting No. 6, 104

Painting No. 9, 93

Painting, Smoking, Eating,178 , 179

Panofsky, Erwin, 54 -55

Paris, France, 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 49 , 166

Pasternak, Boris, 90 -91, 92

Path, 130

Paustovsky, Konstantin, 145 , 174

Paz, Octavio, 167 -68, 179

Perelman, S. J., 15

Performers, 75

Peridot Gallery, 101

"Phares, Les," 69

Phelps, Robert, 79 -81

Phenomenon of Man (Teilhard de Chardin), 122

Philip Roth, 160

Pierre Matisse Gallery, 41

Picasso Pablo, 34 ;

critics and, 23 ;

Golschmann collection of, 72 , 73 ;

late works of, 180 ;

paintings by, 40 , 41 , 46 , 53 , 69 ;

works of Guston and 7 , 15 , 21 , 41 , 47 , 63 , 74 , 145 -46, 156 , 173 , 176

Piero della Francesc, 2 , 58 ;

early works of Guston and, 7 , 19 , 41 ;

later works of Guston and, 76 , 80 , 97 , 146 -50, 153 , 159 , 164 , 181 ;

paintings of, 7 , 22 , 29 , 48 , 51 , 53 , 54 , 64 , 66 , 123 , 147 , 148

"Piero della Francesca: The Impossibility of Painting," 148 , 149

Pins and Needles,36

Pissarro, Camille, 102

Plaza Art Center, Los Angeles, 26

Poet, 119

Poet and the Muse, The,21 , 22

Pollock, Charles, 13

Pollock, Jackson, 33 , 74 , 84 , 114 ;

Action Painting and, 103 ;

death of, 133 ;

friendship with Guston, 6 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 34 , 52 , 78 ;

Mexican mural painting and, 25 -26;

WPA project and, 32

Pollock, Sandford, see McCoy, Sande

Pomona College, 26

Porch,76 , 99

Porch II, 77 , 79

Porter, Fairfield, 102

Portnoy's Complaint (Roth), 156

Possessed, The (Camus), 88

Pound, Ezra, 15 , 21 , 140

Poussin, Nicolas, 116

Principles of Art History (Wöfflin), 53

Prix de Rome, 82

Prometheus, 26

Pudovkin, V. I., 95 -96

Pultizer, Joseph, Jr., 73

Q

Queensbridge mural, 44 -46, 45,47 , 66

R

Rapee, JoEllen, 53

Raphael, 19 , 32 , 138

Rashomon (Japanese film), 169

Rathbone, Perry, 72 , 73

Realists, 3

Reconstruction and Well-Being of the Family,47

Red Painting,99 , 100


216

Red Picture,165

Red Squad, 27

Refregier, Anton, 43

Rembrandt van Rijn, 2 , 54 , 89 , 103 , 118

Ribemont-Dessaignes, Georges, 141

Riding Around,163

Rilke, Rainer Maria, 80

Rimbaud, Arthur, 68 , 92 , 124 , 132

Rivera, Diego, 18 , 25 , 29 , 31

Robert Motherwell, 91

Rococo period, 68

Rome, Italy, 82 , 171

Room, The, 107 , 108

Roosevelt, Franklin D., 29

Rose, Stanley, 18

Rosenberg, Harold, 6 , 123 , 130,131 , 132

Roth, Philip, 156 -57, 159 , 160

Rothko, Mark, 79 , 84 , 114 , 124 , 133

Rousseau, Henri, 21 , 78

Roussel, Raymond, 141

Rubens, Peter Paul, 20

Russell, John, 134 -35

Russian Revolution, 12

S

Sacco and Vanzetti, 12

Safe Conduct (Pasternak), 91

St. Louis, 67 , 72 -76, 111

St. Louis Post-Dispatch,72

St. Louis Star-Times,73

St. Louis Symphony, 73

Sánchez, Manuel Moreno, portrait of, 32

Sanctuary, 50 ,63

San Francesco, Arezo, 149

Saroyan, William, 18

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 84 , 89 , 92

Saturday Evening Post,13

Schwankovsky Frederick John de St. Vrain, 13 , 14

Schwitters Kurt, 140

Scottsboro boys' trial, 27

Seitz, William, 103 , 104

Sentimental Moment,6 , 71 -72

She (film), 18

Sicily, 171

Sidney Janis Gallery, 114

Siena, Italy, 82

Signorelli, Luca, 64 , 164

Simplicissimus,30

Siqueiros David Alfaro, 18 , 25 , 26 , 30 , 31 , 33 , 38

Sisley, Alfred, 102 , 103

Soby, James Thrall, 153

Social Security Building murals, Washington, D.C., 47 , 60

Solitary, 178

Soothsayer's Recompense,21

Soutine, Chaim, 116

Space (Coolidge), 160 -61

Spanish Civil War, 38 , 39

Stamos, Theodoros, 79 , 82

Stanley Kunitz, 125

Stanley Rose Gallery, 7 , 22

Stark, Leonard, 16 , 17

Sternberg, Josef von, 18

Stevens, Wallace, 20 , 90

Stravinsky, Igor, 16

Stroheim, Erich von, 18

Studio, The, 152

Studio School, 149

Sunday Interior,63

Sunday Times (London), 134 -35

Surrealists, 19 , 20 , 138 , 140 -41, 156 , 179 -80, 182 ;

French, 15 , 23

Suzuki (Zen philosopher), 92

Sylvester, David, 134 , 135

Symbolism, 3 , 55 -56, 78 , 92 , 182

T

Tale, The, 129 -30

Tanguy, Yves, 21

Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre, 122 -23

Thomson, Virgil, 37

Three Musicians,40 , 46

Tiepolo family, 68 , 139

Time magazine, 105

Tintoretto, 19 , 20 , 82

Titian, 20 , 82

To B. W. T., 103 ,104 , 109

To Fellini, 113 , 115

Tolegian (Guston's schoolmate), 32 -33

Tomlin, Bradley Walker, 2 , 79 , 83 -84, 104

Tormentors, 81 -82;

drawing for, 70

Transition, 16

Trilby (film), 18

Tribute Money,19

12 Americans,106

20th Century-Fox, 17

U

Uccello, Paolo, 41 , 45 , 47 , 51 , 54

Uffizi Palace, 82

United Scenic Artists Union, 43

U.S. Forestry Building mural, New Hampshire. 46

University of Iowa, 51 , 53

University of Mexico, 31

University of Minnesota, 84

V

Valentin, Curt, 73

Valéry, Paul, 8 -9, 68 , 90 , 94 , 100 , 101 , 122 , 123 , 132 , 173 , 178

Valori Plastici movement, 20

W

Welles, Orson, 36 , 37

West, Nathanael, 11 , 18 -19, 140 -42

Weston, Edward, 17

Whitechapel Gallery, London, 134

White Painting,99 , 102

White Sheik, The (film), 96

Whitney Museum, 38 ;

New Deca show, 90

Willem de Kooning, 113

Williams, William Carlos, 18

WNYC radio, 40

Wölfflin, Heinrich, 53 -54

Wolpe, Stefan, 92

Wood, Grant, 52

Woodside Public Library, 40

Woodstock, New York, 47 , 48 ,55 , 76 , 79 , 83 , 84 , 100 , 155, 156 -57, 160 , 171 , 172 , 181

Work and Play,44 -46

World War I, 13 , 73

World War II, 38 , 49 , 51 , 60 , 71

WPA (Works Progress Administration), 38 , 47 ;

Building at 1939 World's Fair, 41 , 43 -44;

mural project, 32 , 35 , 36

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 21

Wright, Stanton MacDonald, 22 -23

Y

Yeats, William Butler, 124

Young, Art, 13

Yunkers, Adja, 124

V

Van der Goes, Hugo, 65

Van Doesburg, 39

Van Gogh, Vincent, 173

Vantongerloo, 39

Varèse, Edgard, 95

Vasari, Giorgio, 137

Velázquez, Diego, 137

Venice, Italy, 82 , 171

Verlaine, Paul, 68 -69

Vietnam war, 155 -56

Virgin Chastising the Christ Child,7

Vitruvius, 137 -38

Voyage (Beckmann), 73

Voyage (Guston), 108 , 110

W

Wall, 165

Warren, Austin, 53

Washington University, 72 , 73

Watteau, Jean Antoine, 68 , 69 , 80 , 139 , 164 -67

Z

Zamyatin, Evgeny, 183 -84

Zen Buddhism, 92 , 94

Zone, 106 , 107,160


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