Index
Page numbers for illustrations appear in italics.
A
Abstract Expressionism, 6 , 85 , 103 , 105 -106, 133
Actor, 118
"After the Last Dynasty," 124
Alloway, Lawrence, 102
Americana, 30
American Academy in Rome, 92 , 171
American Academy of Art and Letters, 82
American Mercury,13
"Anxiety of Art, The," 123
Apollinaire, Guillaume, 22 , 68 , 124 , 141
"Après-Midi d'un faune, L'," 20
Arenal, Luis, 27
Arensberg, Walter and Louise, 20 -21
Armory Show of 1913, 20
Arnason, H. Harvard, 84
Aronson, Mr. (furrier), 16
Artists Against War and Fascism, 159
Arts, The, 13
Art Students League, 13 , 33 , 34
Art Vivant, L',23
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
Baudelaire, Charles Pierre, 49 , 68 -69, 90 , 97 , 124 , 139 , 140
Baziotes, William, 133
Beck, Rosemary, 79
Beckmann, Max, 23 , 64 , 65 , 73 , 75 , 76 , 169
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 73 , 111 -12
Berenson, Bernhard, 54
Bergman, Ingmar, 69
Biddle, George, 29
Blume, Peter, 23
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
Canvas, The,180
Carnegie Institute, 49 , 71 , 74
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
Chicago, Illinois, 1968 Democratic convention in, 156
Chouinard Institute, 26
Christ's Entry into Brussels,142
City Art Museum, St. Louis, 49
Civil Works Administration Arts Projects, 30
Cleveland School of Cartooning, 12
Clock, The, 113
Cocteau, Jean, 90
Colette, 80
Columbia University, 92
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
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
Paradiso and Inferno,168
da Silva, Howard, 37
Daves, Delmer, 18
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 ;
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
Desolate, 177
Dial, 109 -10
Dickens, Charles, 57
Dies Committee, 38
Discussion, 165
Disparates, Los,180
Doctor Faustus,36
Don Quixote (Cervantes), 168 -69
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
Dürer, Albrecht, 54 -55, 56 , 58 , 138
E
Einstein, Albert, 121 -22
Embarkation for Cythera, The,69
Ernst, Jimmy, 82
Eucalyptus School of Painting, 23
Expressionists,
see also Abstract Expressionism, 64 , 73 , 116
F
"Faith, Hope and Impossibility," 126 , 148
Faure, Élie, 54
Federal Art Project, 39 , 44 , 78 , 82
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
Focillon, Henri, 54
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
Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich, 142 -44, 146 , 156 , 174
Gorky, Arshile, 39 , 40 , 52 , 81
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
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
Hines (Red Squad member), 27
Hitler, Adolf, 38
Hollywood, California, 11 , 15 , 29
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
"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
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
Jouhandeau, Marcel, 80
"Journal for My Daughter," 124
Julius Caesar,36
K
Kadish, Reuben, 12 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 19 , 27 , 30 -31, 32 , 33 -34
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
L
Langer, Susanne, 131
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
Life of Forms in Art, The (Focillon), 54
Living Newspaper,36
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
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
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
Newman, Barnett, 79
New Place, 130
New York: in 1930s, 23 , 33 , 34 , 38 ;
in 1940s, 51 , 52 , 53 , 64 , 78 , 79 , 92 ;
in 1970s, 172 ;
one-man shows of Guston in, 71 , 101 ;
return of Guston to live in, 84 , 87 , 95 , 119
New York School (art movement), 52 , 82 , 84 -85, 89 , 101 , 133
New York Times, The,6 , 44 , 133 , 164
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
Overcoat, The,144
P
Pacher, Michael, 65
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
Path, 130
Paustovsky, Konstantin, 145 , 174
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
Porter, Fairfield, 102
Portnoy's Complaint (Roth), 156
Possessed, The (Camus), 88
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
Rashomon (Japanese film), 169
Realists, 3
Reconstruction and Well-Being of the Family,47
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
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
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 Post-Dispatch,72
St. Louis Star-Times,73
St. Louis Symphony, 73
Sánchez, Manuel Moreno, portrait of, 32
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
She (film), 18
Sicily, 171
Sidney Janis Gallery, 114
Siena, Italy, 82
Simplicissimus,30
Siqueiros David Alfaro, 18 , 25 , 26 , 30 , 31 , 33 , 38
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
Stanley Kunitz, 125
Sternberg, Josef von, 18
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 ;
Suzuki (Zen philosopher), 92
Symbolism, 3 , 55 -56, 78 , 92 , 182
T
Tale, The, 129 -30
Tanguy, Yves, 21
Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre, 122 -23
Thomson, Virgil, 37
Time magazine, 105
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 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
West, Nathanael, 11 , 18 -19, 140 -42
Weston, Edward, 17
Whitechapel Gallery, London, 134
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 II, 38 , 49 , 51 , 60 , 71
WPA (Works Progress Administration), 38 , 47 ;
Building at 1939 World's Fair, 41 , 43 -44;
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
Verlaine, Paul, 68 -69
Vietnam war, 155 -56
Virgin Chastising the Christ Child,7
Vitruvius, 137 -38
Voyage (Beckmann), 73
W
Wall, 165
Warren, Austin, 53
Washington University, 72 , 73
Watteau, Jean Antoine, 68 , 69 , 80 , 139 , 164 -67
Z
Zamyatin, Evgeny, 183 -84