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All quotations from Philip Guston, unless otherwise noted, are from conversations with and letters to the author; they have been checked by Philip Guston and are printed here with his permission.

Introduction

1. Philip Guston, lecture at the Cooper Union, New York, March 1974. [BACK]

2. Philip Guston, ''On Bradley Walker Tomlin," in catalogue issued by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1957. [BACK]

3. Guston, lecture at Cooper Union, op. cit. [BACK]

4. Philip Guston, quoted in "Painter and His Identity," by Walter Barker, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, February 13, 1966. [BACK]

5. Philip Guston, quoted by Morton Feldman, The New York Times, February 2, 1964. [BACK]

6. Philip Guston, quoted in "Dialogue with Philip Guston," by William Berkson, Art & Literature (Winter 1965), pp. 56-59. [BACK]

7. Philip Guston, quoted in "The Philadelphia Panel," It Is (Spring 1960). [BACK]

8. Philip Guston, quoted in interview with Karl Fortess, 1966, taped for Archives of American Art, Washington, D. C. [BACK]

9. Wolfgang Kayser, The Grotesque in Art and Literature (Bloomington: [BACK]

10. "Poetry and Abstract Thought," The Collected Works of Paul Valéry, vol. VII (New York: Pantheon, 1958). [BACK]

I— Conspirators

1. Nathanael West, The Day of the Locust (New York: New Directions, 1950). [BACK]

2. Jiddu Krishnamurti, Life in Freedom (New York: Liveright, 1938). [BACK]

3. George Grosz, A Little Yes and a Big No (New York: Dial Press, 1946). [BACK]

4. Jay Martin, Nathanael West: The Art of His Life (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1970). [BACK]

5. Fletcher Martin, letter to the author, October 21, 1974. [BACK]

6. Jay Martin, op. cit. [BACK]

7. Wallace Stevens, quoted in "Cubism and the Arensbergs," by Fiske Kimball, Art News Annual, 1955. [BACK]

II— Bombardment

1. Fletcher Martin, op. cit. [BACK]

2. "Art War Breaks Out," Los Angeles Times, May 26, 1933. [BACK]

3. George Biddle, letter of May 9, 1933, quoted in Federal Relief Administration and the Arts, by William F. McDonald (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1969). [BACK]

4. James Brooks, interview with the author, August 1973. [BACK]

5. For a full account, see Jane de Hart Mathews, The Federal Theatre, 1935 - 1939 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1967). [BACK]

III— Martial Memory

1. Anton Refregier, quoted in Francis V. O'Connor, Art for the Millions (Greenwich, Conn.: New York Graphic Society, 1971). [BACK]

2. Ruth Green Harris, "Public Taste in Murals," The New York Times, 1939. [BACK]

3. Quoted in "The New Deal Art Projects" by Olive Ryford Gavert, in O'Connor, op. cit. [BACK]

IV— Sanctuary

1. Stephen Greene, letter to the author, January 29, 1973. [BACK]

2. JoEllen Rapee, interview with the author, May 1, 1973. [BACK]

3. Erwin Panofsky, Albrecht Dürer, vol. I (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1943). [BACK]

4. Gustave Janouch, Conversations with Kafka (New York: New Directions, 1971). [BACK]

5. Max Brod, Kafka: A Biography (New York: Schocken, 1960). [BACK]

6. Gustave Flaubert, letter to Louise Colet, August 8, 1846, in The Selected Letters of Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller, ed. (New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1953). [BACK]

7. Flaubert, letter to Louise Colet, August 9, 1846, op. cit. [BACK]

8. Flaubert, letter to Louise Colet, January 16, 1852, op. cit. [BACK]

9. Flaubert, letter to Louise Colet, August 8, 1846, op. cit. [BACK]

10. Flaubert, letter to Louise Colet, August 26, 1853, op. cit. [BACK]

11. Flaubert, letter to Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, July 3, 1860, op. cit. [BACK]

V— If This Be Not I

1. Charles Baudelaire, "Les Phares," Flowers of Evil and Other Works (New York: Bantam, 1964). Translation by Wallace Fowlie. [BACK]

2. For an interesting discussion, see Eileen Souffrin-Le Breton's "Banville et la poétique du décor," in French 19th-Century Painting and Literature, Ulrich Finke, ed. (New York: Harper and Row, 1972). [BACK]

VI— Tormentors

1. Guston, quoted in "Guston: Meaning out of Monumentality," by Rosamond Frost, Art News (February 1945). [BACK]

2. Walter Read Hovey, "Repose and Dignity Mark Top Painting of Carnegie Exhibit," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, October 12, 1945. [BACK]

3. Greene, op. cit. [BACK]

4. In the same issue, Life ran a picture story, "The Ku Klux Klan Tries a Comeback," showing graphic characterizations of hooded figures with bulky white cotton work gloves going through clownish gestures before an electric light cross. There is also a hangman's noose in the background. [BACK]

5. Mary Holmes, "Metamorphosis and Myth in Modern Art," Perspective (Winter 1948). [BACK]

6. Robert Phelps, interview with the author, May 1973. [BACK]

7. Flaubert, letter to Louise Colet, January 16, 1852, op. cit. [BACK]

VII— Drawing

1. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, quoted in Albert Camus, Myth of Sisyphus (New York: Knopf, 1955). [BACK]

2. Albert Camus, Myth of Sisyphus (New York: Knopf, 1955). [BACK]

3. Brod, op. cit. [BACK]

4. Boris Pasternak, Safe Conduct (New York: New Directions, 1958). [BACK]

5. Henry Cowell, "Current Chronicle," The Musical Quarterly (January 1952), pp. 123-36. [BACK]

6. James Lawler, "Paul Valéry and the Visual Arts," Critiques III (New York: Cooper Union, Fall 1974). [BACK]

7. V. I. Pudovkin, Film Technique and Film Acting (New York: Grove, 1970). [BACK]

8. Federico Fellini, quoted in interview with Gideon Bachmann, 1959, in Interviews with Film Directors, by Andrew Sarris (New York: BobbsMerrill, 1967). [BACK]

VIII— Attar

1. Paul Valéry, Degas, Manet, Morisot (New York: Pantheon, 1960), p. 147. [BACK]

2. Paul Brach, "Affirmation," Art Digest (January 15, 1953). [BACK]

3. Fairfield Porter, Art News (February 1953). [BACK]

4. Lawrence Alloway, "Notes on Guston," Art Journal (Fall 1962). [BACK]

5. William Seitz, "Philip Guston," introduction to exhibition catalogue at the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, February 27-March 27,1966. [BACK]

6. Time, January 7, 1952. [BACK]

7. Morton Feldman, "After Modernism," Art in America (November-December 1971). [BACK]

8. Ibid. [BACK]

9. Philip Guston, statement, It Is (Spring 1958). [BACK]

IX— Alchemist

1. Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man (New York: Harper and Row, 1961). [BACK]

2. Philip Guston, "Piero della Francesca: The Impossibility of Painting," Art News (May 1965). [BACK]

3. Morton Feldman, "The Anxiety of Art," Art in America (September-October 1973). [BACK]

4. Robert Creeley, "Philip Guston: A Note," Black Mountain Review (Spring 1956). [BACK]

5. Stanley Kunitz, "After the Last Dynasty," Poetry (October-November 1962). [BACK]

6. Stanley Kunitz, "Open the Gates," Selected Poems, 1928 - 58 (Boston: Little, Brown, 1958). [BACK]

7. Kafka, quoted in William Berkson, "Dialogues with Philip Guston," op. cit. [BACK]

8. Philip Guston, "Faith, Hope, and Impossibility," Art News Annual XXXI (October 1966). [BACK]

9. Susanne K. Langer, Philosophical Sketches (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1962). [BACK]

10. Hilton Kramer, "Abstractions of Guston Still Further Refined," The New York Times, January 1, 1965. [BACK]

11. Guston, in interview with Karl Fortess, op. cit. [BACK]

12. David Sylvester, "Philip Guston," The New Statesman, February 15, 1963. [BACK]

13. John Russell, "Beyond Nature," The Sunday Times (London), January 20, 1963. [BACK]

X— Inside Out

1. Kayser, op. cit. [BACK]

2. Charles Baudelaire, "On the Essence of Laughter," in The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays, by Jonathan Mayne (London: Phaidon, 1964). [BACK]

3. Nathanael West, quoted in Jay Martin, op. cit. [BACK]

4. Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts (New York: New Directions, 1946). [BACK]

5. West, The Day of the Locust, op. cit. [BACK]

6. Vladimir Nabokov, Nikolai Gogol (New York: New Directions, 1944). [BACK]

7. Konstantin Paustovsky, "Reminiscences of Babel," Partisan Review, vol. 28, nos. 3-4, (1960). [BACK]

8. Isaac Babel, "Guy de Maupassant," Collected Stories (New York: Meridian, 1960). [BACK]

9. Isaac Babel, "Kolyvushka," Lyubka the Cossack and Other Stories (New York: New American Library, 1964). [BACK]

10. Guston, "Piero della Francesca," op. cit. [BACK]

11. Guston, "Faith, Hope, and Impossibility," op. cit. [BACK]

XI— The Studio

1. James Thrall Soby, The Early Chirico (New York: Dodd Mead, 1941). [BACK]

2. Philip Roth, interview with the author, May 1973. [BACK]

3. Philip Roth, "Reading Myself," in Reading Myself and Others (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975). [BACK]

4. Ibid. [BACK]

5. Clark Coolidge, interview with the author, May 1975. [BACK]

6. Clark Coolidge, Space (New York: Harper and Row, 1970). [BACK]

7. Fellini, op. cit. [BACK]

8. Pierre Schneider, The World of Watteau (New York: Time-Life Books, 1967). [BACK]

9. Octavio Paz, "The New Analogy," Critiques (New York: Cooper Union, 1972). [BACK]

XII— The Desert

1. Paustovsky, op. cit. [BACK]

2. Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or (Princeton: Princeton University Press 1959). Translation by W. Lowrie. [BACK]

3. Ibid. [BACK]

4. Joseph Brodsky, "Beyond Consolation," The New York Review of Books, February 7, 1974, quoted by Guston in letter to the author. [BACK]

5. Philip Guston, conference at Boston University, Fall 1973. [BACK]

XIII— Survivor of the Combat

1. Norbert Lynton, "An Obverse Decorum," in catalogue for "Philip Guston, Paintings 1969-80," exhibition at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, October-December, 1982. [BACK]

2. Joanne Dickson, "Transcript of a Conversation with Philip Guston, May 14, 1980," National Arts Guide (November-December 1980). [BACK]

3. Peter de Francia, "Effigies and Images," New Statesman and Society, June 9, 1989. [BACK]


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