Guston in Time by Ross Feld

Author:Ross Feld [Feld, Ross]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781681376615
Publisher: New York Review Books
Published: 2022-05-24T00:00:00+00:00

If everything about a work of art can be kerneled in its will-to-form, it follows that every period for an artist is as good as any other, necessary in the filling development that is underway. In this way evolution itself becomes a kind of abstraction. Yet Guston seemed to resist both.

Why? Had the various modes of abstraction failed him, or was it vice versa? Was he after all what his peers grumbled about: a style-shuffler, a mind that just could not be made up? One of the second-generation New York Schoolers, the painter Jon Schueler, wrote in his diaries (posthumously published as The Sound of Sleat):

Phil Guston loved Piero della Francesca, but he wanted his beauty to be of his time, and he was deeply hurt, I understand, when his friends, his brothers, his fellow artists said, You, Phil, with your figurative paintings, with your success, you are a traitor. You are selling out. You are not with us. You are not seeing. The story goes that he changed then. He started all over again. Depending on how you look at it, that was a very brave or a very weak thing to do.

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